{"id":686983,"date":"2026-11-11T21:45:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T21:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=862723"},"modified":"2026-11-11T21:45:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T21:45:49","slug":"from-prison-cell-to-2-7m-crypto-heist-scottish-criminal-gets-8-more-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/from-prison-cell-to-2-7m-crypto-heist-scottish-criminal-gets-8-more-years\/","title":{"rendered":"From Prison Cell to $2.7M Crypto Heist, Scottish Criminal Gets 8 More Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/from-prison-cell-to-2-7m-crypto-heist-scottish-criminal-gets-8-more-years-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Prisoner walking back to prison.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>A Scottish prisoner who masterminded an elaborate \u00a32 million cryptocurrency robbery from behind bars has received another eight years in prison. The audacious scheme combined sophisticated cybercrime with an old-fashioned home invasion, but ultimately collapsed when the intended victims refused to open their door. Prison Cell Becomes Command Center for \u00a32 Million Cryptocurrency Plot On [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Scottish prisoner who masterminded an elaborate \u00a32 million cryptocurrency robbery from behind bars has received another eight years in prison. The audacious scheme combined sophisticated cybercrime with an old-fashioned home invasion, but ultimately collapsed when the intended victims refused to open their door. Prison Cell Becomes Command Center for \u00a32 Million Cryptocurrency Plot On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":686984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-686983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}