Elliott Gunton
Elliott Gunton (born  1999), also known by his online pseudonyms Glubz and planet, is a convicted British cybercriminal from Norfolk.

TalkTalk security breach
On 21 October 2015, Gunton engaged in a "sustained cyberattack" against British telecom company TalkTalk, stealing the names, addresses, e-mails, and bank details of its users. During a search of his home, law enforcement found indecent images of children on Gunton's devices. He had also confessed to targeting the websites of Manchester University and Cambridge University.

In November 2016, Gunton pleaded guilty, telling the youth court that he was "just showing off to [his] mates." He received a 12-month youth rehabilitation order.

August 2019 conviction
Gunton was again investigated in April 2019, after CCleaner was found on his computer, which was in violation of his Sexual Harm Prevention Order. In August 2019, he pleaded guilty to, in 2017 and 2018, laundering money, committing Computer Misuse Act crimes, and breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order. He had probed the websites of local high schools for vulnerabilities and illegally accessed Australian telecom company Telstra's systems, which he then used to gain access to the Instagram account @adesignersmind to send "grotesquely offensive" messages to the owner's customers.

During a search of Gunton's home, police discovered £407,359.35 in cryptocurrency, which he had allegedly acquired from selling the account details of Instagram users on cybercrime forums. He was sentenced to 20 months of imprisonment but was immediately released due to time served. Gunton's mother and father were given three- and five-month suspended sentences, respectively, for transferring stolen funds.

After his conviction, Gunton's cryptocurrency was auctioned off, the "first ever on the instruction of a police force in the UK."

EtherDelta cryptocurrency theft
On 13 August 2019, Gunton and Anthony Tyler Nashatka ("psycho") of Michigan were indicted by a federal grand jury for their involvement in a 13–26 December 2017 scheme to steal over US$1.4 million in Ethereum. The two were accused of simjacking the CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta and using his access to redirect its users to a clone of EtherDelta, which would give Gunton and Nashatka details of cryptocurrency wallets that users had entered.

In July 2024, Gunton was sentenced to 3½ years of imprisonment.

See also
 List of cybercriminals

References

Category:1999 births
Category:British cybercriminals
Category:Criminals from Norfolk
Category:English people convicted of child pornography offences
Category:Hackers
Category:Living people