Verkada security camera hacker has been charged in the US for hacking into 100+ of the world's biggest companies since 2019 and leaking proprietary data online
The US Department of Justice has charged today a Swiss national for hacking into more than 100 companies and leaking proprietary data online on their personal website.
The Swiss national now faces a U.S. criminal case, while the more than 100 affected companies must assess the exposure created by proprietary data published online.
Second-order effects
Public dissemination raises the burden on affected companies beyond closing an intrusion: they must determine what proprietary material was exposed and manage its continuing availability.
Third-order effects
Taken with DOJ cases involving IP theft and market-sensitive corporate information, the charge points to cyber enforcement treating stolen business data as an asset whose misuse can create harms beyond the initial breach.
The trend: U.S. cybercrime enforcement is increasingly connecting large-scale corporate-data intrusions with the downstream use and publication of the stolen information.
A busy night for DOJ announcements: the Swiss national who took credit for the breach of surveillance vendor Verkada and its 150K + live camera feeds has been indicted for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft: https://www.justice.gov/...
@williamturton
William Turton on x
NEWS: Tillie Kottmann, who claimed credit for hacking security camera company Verkada, has been indicted in the U.S. https://www.justice.gov/... https://twitter.com/...
@kimzetter
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This feels like an unusually rapid indictment https://twitter.com/...
@anthomsec
Andrew Thompson on x
Swiss Hacker indicted for conspiracy, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft | USAO-WDWA | Department of Justice https://www.justice.gov/...
@wdwanews
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Swiss Hacker indicted for conspiracy, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft — Allegedly targeted and published source code and proprietary data of corporate and government victims in various countries https://www.justice.gov/...
@clearing_fog
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Indictment issued for the Swiss hacker who took control over all of the security cameras. That was fast. https://twitter.com/...
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Verkada security camera ‘hacktivist’ Till Kottman has now been raided and subsequently indicted by the US for multiple alleged hacking offences since 2019. What will this case mean for ‘white hack hackers’ and whistle blowers? https://www.justice.gov/...