Category: arrest

European police hacked encrypted phones used by thousands of criminals

Post author By Randall
Post date July 2, 2020
Categories In arrest, drugs, earn it act, encrochat, encrypted, end-to-end encryption, europe, gear, guns, hacked, Law Enforcement, News, phones, police, Tech, Uk

[ad_1] Law enforcement agencies began collecting data from Encrochat on April 1st. According to the BBC, the encryption code was likely cracked in early March. It’s not clear exactly how officials hacked the platform, which is now shut down. It’s not unusual for criminals to communicate via encrypted apps and devices. In 2018, the FBI […]

Ukraine catches hacker who tried to sell 773 million stolen email addresses

Post author By Randall
Post date May 19, 2020
Categories In arrest, banking, breach, dark web, data, detain, financial, gear, hacker, News, officials, sanix, stolen, Tech, ukraine

[ad_1] Today, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) announced that it has detained the hacker, known as Sanix, who caused a stir last year for trying to sell a database with 773 million email addresses and 21 million unique passwords. Officials say that 87-gigabyte database was only a fraction of the stolen data Sanix collected. […]