> As a teen, she kitted out her home PC with a terabyte of memory ...<p>Ugh. Wired articles have a reputation for poor accuracy, but that's taking the piss.
A shorter explanation of the fraud without as much info on the fraudster's personality and personal history: <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/p/articleshow/111666866.cms" rel="nofollow">https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/p/articleshow/111666866....</a><p>TLDR is she stole peoples' identities to make Uber driver accounts and then rented those accounts to people that couldn’t legally be Uber drivers. Made a bunch of money (~750k). got fined 20k and 3 years in prison.