Men Who Sent Swat Team, Heroin to My Home Sentenced
Summary: A Ukrainian man, Sergey Vovnenko, was sentenced in New Jersey to 41 months in prison, three years of supervised release and $83,368 in restitution for aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, after prosecutors said he ran a network of more than 13,000 hacked computers to harvest credit card numbers. Separately, Eric Taylor, known as "Cosmo the God," was sentenced in Washington, D.C. to three years of probation for his role in a 2013 swatting hoax at the author's Virginia home and in the exposed[dot]su site that doxed officials including Michelle Obama, the FBI director and the U.S. attorney general.
Key Takeaway: The doxing behind exposed[dot]su ran through a Russian identity theft service, ssndob[dot]ru, which in turn relied on compromised user accounts at data broker LexisNexis to pull personal and financial data on millions of Americans - a reminder that the consumer data your vendors hold is the raw material for targeting your executives.
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