Comment by bitbasher
12 hours ago
Wasn't he the guy that used tar for the leaked folder of data, but the tar included his user folder which contained his legal name?
12 hours ago
Wasn't he the guy that used tar for the leaked folder of data, but the tar included his user folder which contained his legal name?
It's in the article. Not sure it had his name, but certainly his family name since he looked for records concerning his relatives.
Ah yes-- I first heard of this via an entertaining video about it, "One Drunken Mistake Destroyed Finland's Scummiest Hacker", see below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCcvPfT_jU
The big problem with this video is that it's basically entirely based on google translated tabloid articles.
The results are what you might expect if you decided to just use dailymail.co.uk as a source, similar to the creator of malicious trojan virus Python being arrested https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124114/Computer-ha...
>Pearson coded trojan viruses, called Zeus, SpyEye and Python, to automatically scour the internet in search of personal details.
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The queries appear to have been looking for me specifically, filtering by date of birth. That wouldn't be a good way to find my relatives.
Damn, some other group trying to cause trouble for you?
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Yes, the tar command claims another victim. Tested while inside /var/www/html/vastaamo and then stuffed it in the crontab.
For reference:
No, that did not actually happen.
What did happen, then?