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$12,000 in Bitcoin Stolen
Tinman57:
at the risk of the basement, exactly who do you call - and more importantly WHO will be willing to open an investigation.
AFAIK something like this would generally be handled under civil rather than criminal law unless you could interest a prosecutor in basing a case around some sort of cybercrime.
Good luck. you can't even get the cops interested in looking into major data security breeches. So when it comes to something like bitcoins, I don't think that will gain much traction with the police.
Not saying it's right. Just saying how it usually works. At least where I live. :) -40hz (March 08, 2013, 12:51 PM)
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In the U.S., if there is actual theft of anything of monetary value over the internet, it will be investigated by law enforcement. I think you would have to file with your state's Attorney General or the FBI, or even the Federal Trade Center website for complaints. I've read about it in the past, but fortunately have never had to file....
40hz:
^From my experience, it doesn't happen very often in practice. Law enforcement will usually let you file the complaint. But unless you can document an actual quantifiable and substantial financial loss, it just stops there. And forget the FBI. Unless you're a financial institution or defense contractor - or you have a provable financial loss up in the millions.
What mostly happens is the information you provide gets filed. If your issue is part of a larger pattern, something may eventually happen. But if it's a smaller "one off" sort of crime they seldom open an active investigation. At least from my experience.
Probably all depends on where you live, how busy the police are, and how interested they become in what's happened to you.
Tinman57:
^From my experience, it doesn't happen very often in practice. Law enforcement will usually let you file the complaint. But unless you can document an actual quantifiable and substantial financial loss, it just stops there. And forget the FBI. Unless you're a financial institution or defense contractor - or you have a provable financial loss up in the millions.
What mostly happens is the information you provide gets filed. If your issue is part of a larger pattern, something may eventually happen. But if it's a smaller "one off" sort of crime they seldom open an active investigation. At least from my experience.
Probably all depends on where you live, how busy the police are, and how interested they become in what's happened to you. -40hz (March 08, 2013, 09:27 PM)
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If it's over a certain amount, something like $1500 - $2000 (or whatever), then it's a felony offense and the FBI will investigate. Anything lower then the others get involved. Or that's how it worked years ago when I read about all that stuff. Now days there's no telling how much has to be stolen before they'll get off their collective asses and do something. But I'll bet that if it happens to anyone, they'll be heading over to FBI.gov to see what they have to do. lol
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