Introduction

Shaquib Ahmed is accused of hacking a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange in 2022. The government alleges he used the equivalent of an admin account to fraudulently manipulate fees that were paid for lending crypto. He allegedly does this 21 times, extracting 9 million US dollars from the exchange. In the days following the hack, the government then alleges Shaqib Googles. All of the stuff you would Google if you had just done a big cyber money crime heist.