{"id":65283,"date":"2018-08-17T00:47:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T04:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=65283"},"modified":"2018-08-17T00:47:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T04:47:02","slug":"u-s-investor-sues-att-for-224-million-over-loss-of-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2018\/u-s-investor-sues-att-for-224-million-over-loss-of-cryptocurrency.html","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Investor Sues AT&#038;T for $224 Million Over Loss of Cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Reuters) U.S. entrepreneur and cryptocurrency investor Michael Terpin filed a $224 million lawsuit on Wednesday against telecommunications company AT&#038;T (T.N), accusing it of fraud and gross negligence in connection with the theft of digital currency tokens from his personal account. In a 69-page complaint filed with the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Terpin alleged that on January 7, 2018, the tokens were stolen from him through what he alleged was a \u201cdigital identity theft\u201d of his cellphone account. In the complaint, he said AT&#038;T was his service provider.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-cryptocurrency-at-t-lawsuit\/u-s-investor-sues-att-for-224-million-over-loss-of-cryptocurrency-idUSKBN1L01AA\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) U.S. entrepreneur and cryptocurrency investor Michael Terpin filed a $224 million lawsuit on Wednesday against telecommunications company AT&#038;T (T.N), accusing it of fraud and gross negligence in connection with the theft of digital currency tokens from his personal account. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65284,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65283\/revisions\/65284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}