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Misogynist hacker who threatened the wrong woman (hacker) and found out

Posted by BeanBurrito
Tags: security.cyber, canada.on.kitchener, telegram, threats, misogyny, crime, hacking, allison nixon, unit221b, mandiant, connor riley moucka, alexander moucka, extradition, usa.wa, data breaches, author.terry pender, source.therecord
https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/accused-kitchener-hacker-unmasked-after-threatening-woman-online/article_3501ea8b-1514-5524-8de6-f52e92c3e103.html

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Accused Kitchener hacker unmasked after threatening woman online
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Published
Dec 3 2024
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  1. [4]
    CannibalisticApple
    Link
    Here's the direct link to the article linked by the Patreon post. Headline seems to be underselling how big of a deal this is, because while she did go after him in part for threatening her, this...

    Here's the direct link to the article linked by the Patreon post. Headline seems to be underselling how big of a deal this is, because while she did go after him in part for threatening her, this guy (Waifu) is the alleged mastermind behind the Snowflake hack.

    Moucka is alleged to be the mastermind behind the Snowflake hack — one of the biggest data breaches in history.

    Nixon first became aware of “Waifu” in 2019 when the New York Police Department called her for information. The hacker identified as a member of “The Com,” a criminal subculture online she had been tracking for years.
    ...

    During the April-July period of 2024, the American cloud service provider Snowflake was hacked. The hacker accessed the accounts and data of many companies using Snowflake, including AT&T, Ticketmaster, Advance Auto Parts, Santander, LendingTree and Neiman Marcus, among many others.

    About 165 customers of Snowflake were hacked. The hacker stole the call logs and texts of 100 million customers at AT&T, and the account information for 560 million users of Ticketmaster. The hacker used stolen log-in information to access the accounts.

    This guy is a pretty big catch!

    13 votes
    1. cfabbro
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      I'm actually going to change the link to that one, since the other stuff on the Patreon post has nothing to do with the Tildes topic title. cc: @BeanBurrito, let me know if there was some other...

      I'm actually going to change the link to that one, since the other stuff on the Patreon post has nothing to do with the Tildes topic title.

      cc: @BeanBurrito, let me know if there was some other reason the Patreon was posted. I can change the link back if you want, but a new title may be necessary since it didn't make much sense with the current one.

      4 votes
    2. [2]
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      Link Parent
      That page must be broken for me. This is the entire text of the article I see: edit: archive link, which works

      That page must be broken for me. This is the entire text of the article I see:

      When the accused Kitchener-based hacker known online as “Waifu” threatened a woman on the messaging app Telegram, it was the beginning of his downfall.

      ‘Waifu” had been bragging about his criminal exploits in open groups on Telegram. But when he threatened Allison Nixon, the chief research officer at the U.S. cybersecurity firm Unit221B, his days were numbered.

      edit: archive link, which works

      2 votes
      1. csos95
        Link Parent
        It loads the rest of the article with Javascript after about ten seconds with no indication that it's not the entire article and there's more to load.

        It loads the rest of the article with Javascript after about ten seconds with no indication that it's not the entire article and there's more to load.

        4 votes