BOSTON (AP) - A New Hampshire man who authorities say used the stolen personal information of others to buy gift cards and tickets to sporting events that he then sold for a profit was sentenced Thursday to a year in prison.
Jonathan Nguyen, 23, of Windham, New Hampshire, was also sentenced by a federal judge in Boston to two years of probation and ordered to pay $250,000, the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston said in a statement.
Nguyen and his accomplices used Bitcoin to purchase names, addresses, birth dates, Social Security numbers, email addresses and passwords as well as credit card information, prosecutors said.
They then used this information to buy the gift cards and tickets.
Nguyen also created e-commerce websites for sham companies and obtained payment card processing capabilities for these companies in order to cash out the stolen credit cards, prosecutors said.
He also devised ways to thwart the fraud detection mechanisms used by the internet merchants where he made purchases with the stolen information, authorities said.
He pleaded guilty in June to conspiring to engage in wire fraud, access-device fraud and identity theft.
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