Security News > 2023 > November > Rogue ex-Motorola techie admits cyberattack on former employer, passport fraud

Rew Mahn, 28, of Derry, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to both passport fraud and wire fraud, the latter relating to that cyber-intrusion.

Mahn was indicted [PDF] by a grand jury for passport fraud in February, after being charged in 2021 with breaking into Motorola's computer network and stealing data.

Prosecutors did not name Motorola in their indictments against Mahn: instead their court documents refer to the biz as "Company A," and described it as an international corporation headquartered in Chicago that sells, among other products, two-way radios.

While working at Massport, Mahn sent phishing emails to 31 Motorola employees between August and September, 2020.

A second IP address assigned to the same Comcast account was later used to access Mahn's personal Venmo and Gmail accounts, and Mahn also used his personal Google account and driver's license to set up a Coinbase account that paid for hosting phony Motorola corporate login page, we're told.

Passport fraud could get Mahn ten years behind bars and a $250,000 fine.

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