According to the indictment, the operatives illegally took social security numbers and birth dates of Americans without their knowledge and
created fake means of
identification, including false driver's licenses, which allowed them to open and maintain PayPal accounts.
Using PGP encryption software and the bitcoin blockchain — a cryptographically secured public ledger that runs on machines across the internet — the project
creates a mathematically iron - clad
identification paper that would be extremely difficult, perhaps impossible, to
fake.