SpaceX is making headlines, and this time, the drama is not about CEO Elon Musk — or Mars.
Kelvin Rodriguez-Moya, 35, was arrested for allegedly illegally trafficking 675 SpaceX Starlink terminals he had bought with stolen bank card data and hacking current clients.
Starlink terminals are principally used to deliver web entry to distant areas all over the world by SpaceX’s satellites.
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The gadgets, that are price an estimated $400,000, have been reportedly shipped to a house in New Jersey earlier than he tried to move them through pickup truck to Newark.
“Sometimes, what occurs is, the suspect would use these gadgets to resell and achieve some sort of financial profit,” Lawrence Township police Chief Chris Longo stated. “We obtained data from a resident that there was a lot of deliveries going to a residence inside our city.”
Rodriguez-Moya was reportedly pulled over with roughly 220 gadgets in his truck whereas he was en path to Newark.
Rodriguez-Moya doesn’t dwell on the tackle the place the satellites have been delivered, and the precise residents have been unaware of what was happening.
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SpaceX’s Director of Cost Threat and Fraud, Bennet Woo, dubbed the restoration of the terminals the “largest fraud restoration thus far by an order of magnitude.”
Rodriguez-Moya was formally charged with receiving stolen property and trafficking stolen property (each within the second diploma) and has a detention listening to set for March 8.
