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Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier

November 26, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, AT&T, boxfan, buttholio, connor riley moucka, cyb3rph4nt0m, ddos-for-hire, john erin binns, judische, kiberphant0m, naver, Ne'er-Do-Well News, proman557, ransomware, reverseshell, shi-bot, snowflake, South korea, telekomterrorist, The Coming Storm, vars_secc, Verizon, waifu

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:45:48 +0000

Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake, but a third suspect — a prolific hacker known as Kiberphant0m — remains at large and continues to publicly extort victims. However, this person’s identity may not remain a secret for long: A careful review of Kiberphant0m’s daily chats across multiple cybercrime personas suggests they are a U.S. Army soldier who is or was recently stationed in South Korea.

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Canadian Man Arrested in Snowflake Data Extortions

November 5, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, advance auto parts, alexander antonin moucka, at&t breach, Atomwaffen Division, austin larsen, bharat sanchar nigam ltd, Breadcrumbs, connor riley moucka, court, intelsecrets, irdev, john erin binns, judische, kiberphant0m, leak society, lending tree, Mandiant, Ne'er-Do-Well News, rapelash, satori, SIM swapping, snowflake, ticketmaster, unc5537, Verizon, waifu

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:10:04 +0000

A 26-year-old man in Ontario, Canada has been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting more than 160 companies that used the cloud data service Snowflake. On October 30, Canadian authorities arrested Alexander Moucka, a.k.a. Connor Riley Moucka of Kitchener, Ontario, on a provisional arrest warrant from the United States. Bloomberg first reported Moucka’s alleged ties to the Snowflake hacks on Monday. At the end of 2023, malicious hackers learned that many large companies had uploaded huge volumes of sensitive customer data to Snowflake accounts that were protected with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication required). After scouring darknet markets for stolen Snowflake account credentials, the hackers began raiding the data storage repositories used by some of the world’s largest corporations.