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Who Was the NSA Contractor Arrested for Leaking the ‘Shadow Brokers’ Hacking Tools?

November 27, 2017 admin A Little Sunshine, Breadcrumbs, Central Security Service, Edward Snowden, Gennadiy Sidelnikov, Glen Sidelnikov, Goodfellow Air Force Base, Independent Software, InGuardians, Kaspersky Antivirus, kaspersky lab, Kishinev University, Lackland Air Force Base, Michael A. Pecoraro, Mike Poor, Nathan S. Heidbreder, national security agency, NSA hack, NSA-FTS32 USA, Operation Jeepflea Market, Rob Curtinseufert, Service Cryptologic Elements, Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, SWIFT, tailored access operations, TAO, Texas Cryptologic Center, The Shadow Brokers

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:01:26 +0000

In August 2016, a mysterious entity calling itself “The Shadow Brokers” began releasing the first of several troves of classified documents and hacking tools purportedly stolen from “The Equation Group,” a highly advanced threat actor that is suspected of having ties to the U.S. National Security Agency. According to media reports, at least some of the information was stolen from the computer of an unidentified software developer and NSA contractor who was arrested in 2015 after taking the hacking tools home. In this post, we’ll examine clues left behind in the leaked Equation Group documents that may point to the identity of the mysterious software developer.