Two hackers who extorted money from Uber and LinkedIn plead guilty in a California court yesterday. Two guys (one from FL and other from Toronto) admitted that they had accessed and downloaded massive amount of confidential data from AWS using stolen creds.
One of the emails sent by them was:
“I was able to access backups upon backups, me and my team would like a huge reward for this,” the hackers said to the victim company in an email.
“Please keep in mind, we expect a big payment as this was hard work for us, we already helped a big corp which paid close to 7 digits, all went well.”
These guys were able to get their hands on more than 55 million Uber riders and drivers for which the company reportedly paid $100k in bitcoins in an attempt to cover up the breach. According to the article – “The indictment also revealed that the duo blackmailed LinkedIn in the same way in December 2016, informing the company that they had compromised databases of LinkedIn’s subsidiary Lynda.com and stole over 90,000 user records, including their credit card information.”
They have been released on a bond and will be sentenced in March 2020.
Article: https://thehackernews.com/2019/10/hackers-extorted-money.html
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