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thewayneThis particular piece of pond scum had an interesting approach: pay him a bit coin or your web site would get hit with a distributed denial of service. He also ran a side job of phoning in bomb threats to over 2,200 schools in the U.S. and U.K. if you needed to get out of a test or just wanted to prank your school. And he got a kick out of taunting computer journalist Brian Krebs on Twitter.
Nice guy, eh?
Krebs helped to take down an associate, but they had trouble getting info on this guy, known as HDGZ or HDGZero. Then in January of last year, hackers broke into a gaming company's server and stole a user database and dumped it online, selling user credentials. Eventually the whole database leaked publicly, and in it was a user and email account for HDGZero which was ultimately traced to one Timothy Dalton Vaughn of Winston-Salem, NC.
He plead guilty to federal charges, one count each of "conspiracy to convey threats to injure, convey false information concerning use of explosive device, and intentionally damage a computer; one count of computer hacking; and one count of possession of child pornography." While sentences will be served concurrently, he'll still be 30 when he gets out and with a Federal criminal conviction, including for sex crimes.
Dalton's online aliases included “WantedbyFeds” and “Hacker_R_US”. I think he's going to have to change those when he gets out, and when he gets his using online connected devices privileges restored.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/12/bomb-threat-ddos-purveyor-gets-eight-years/
Nice guy, eh?
Krebs helped to take down an associate, but they had trouble getting info on this guy, known as HDGZ or HDGZero. Then in January of last year, hackers broke into a gaming company's server and stole a user database and dumped it online, selling user credentials. Eventually the whole database leaked publicly, and in it was a user and email account for HDGZero which was ultimately traced to one Timothy Dalton Vaughn of Winston-Salem, NC.
He plead guilty to federal charges, one count each of "conspiracy to convey threats to injure, convey false information concerning use of explosive device, and intentionally damage a computer; one count of computer hacking; and one count of possession of child pornography." While sentences will be served concurrently, he'll still be 30 when he gets out and with a Federal criminal conviction, including for sex crimes.
Dalton's online aliases included “WantedbyFeds” and “Hacker_R_US”. I think he's going to have to change those when he gets out, and when he gets his using online connected devices privileges restored.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/12/bomb-threat-ddos-purveyor-gets-eight-years/
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Date: 2020-12-02 06:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-12-02 08:14 pm (UTC)It happens occasionally, be nice if it happened more often.
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Date: 2020-12-03 02:05 am (UTC)