Noah Michael Urban pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft and was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison with three years supervised release and $13 million restitution. Urban used multiple aliases and was arrested in Florida in January 2024 for crimes committed between August 2022 and March 2023 that resulted in at least $800,000 stolen from five victims. Prosecutors said Urban and co-conspirators conducted SIM swapping to seize cryptocurrency accounts and assets. The DoJ later unsealed charges against Urban and four other Scattered Spider members for social engineering, network intrusions, data theft, and siphoning millions in cryptocurrency. One indicted member was extradited from Spain.
A 20-year-old member of the notorious cybercrime gang known as Scattered Spider has been sentenced to ten years in prison in the U.S. in connection with a series of major hacks and cryptocurrency thefts. Noah Michael Urban pleaded guilty to charges related to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft back in April 2025. News of Urban's sentencing was reported by Bloomberg and Jacksonville news outlet News4JAX.
Urban, who also went by the aliases Sosa, Elijah, King Bob, Gustavo Fring, and Anthony Ramirez, was arrested by U.S. authorities in Florida in January 2024 for committing wire fraud and aggravated identity theft between August 2022 and March 2023. These incidents led to the theft of at least $800,000 from at least five different victims, per the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ). Prosecutors said Urban and his co-conspirators engaged in SIM swapping attacks to hijack victims' cryptocurrency accounts and plunder the digital assets.
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