On Wednesday, the Department of Justice filed charges against Robert Powell, Carter Rohn, and Emily Hernandez, accusing them of running a phone hacking scheme that targeted victims between March 2021 and April 2023. 

In an 18-page indictment presented in a Washington, D.C. court, prosecutors leveled charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and identity theft against these three individuals. Notably, they are accused of obtaining $400 million from an undisclosed company on  November 11, 2022. 

Although the report does not specify the company, Bloomberg says that the company was FTX. FTX was hacked just hours after it filed for bankruptcy.

According to the indictment, Powell, Rohn, and Hernandez gathered the personal information of approximately 50 individuals. They employed this data to persuade mobile phone service providers to transfer the victims' phone numbers to a decoy device under their control. They were then able to intercept text messages, including multi-factor authentication codes, which granted them access to the victims' financial accounts and cryptocurrency wallets.

Using this SIM swapping operation, Powell, Rohn, and Hernandez allegedly managed to infiltrate the crypto exchange by exploiting an AT&T employee and transferring hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency out of the exchange.

Bloomberg reports three individuals have been charged. 


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