Who Built the ID Theft Service SSNDOB.ru?
Summary: KrebsOnSecurity reports that ssndob[dot]ru, an identity theft service selling Social Security numbers, credit reports and drivers license data on more than four million Americans, was built by a man named Armand Ayakimyan, identified through domain registration records, forum aliases and a Vkontakte profile. The site's 1,300 customers spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on lookups, and Symantec tied Ayakimyan to a group it calls the Cyclosa gang, which also ran a small botnet inside servers at LexisNexis, Kroll and Dun & Bradstreet.
What you should know: The operators held access to hacked data-broker servers for at least five months before discovery, and the service's own database of four million consumer records was later plundered by the hackers behind exposed[dot]su.
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