Security News > 2020 > July > Alleged Ripoff Report Hacker Extradited to United States
A Cypriot national was extradited to the United States last week to face charges related to various computer intrusions, including the hacking into Ripoff Report.
The man, Joshua Polloso Epifaniou, 21, a resident of Nicosia, Cyprus, was arrested in Cyprus in February 2018 and is the first Cypriot national to be extradited from the country to the United States.
Between October 2014 and November 2016, Epifaniou and co-conspirators allegedly targeted websites to steal personal identifying information from databases and then extort money from the websites by threatening to make the stolen data public.
The man is charged with stealing data from the websites of multiple companies in the United States, including a free online game publisher, a hardware company, an online employment website, and an online sports news website.
According to the indictment, in October 2016, Epifaniou hacked into the database of Phoenix, Arizona-based Ripoff Report.