Security News > 2024 > December > Brazilian Hacker Charged for Extorting $3.2M in Bitcoin After Breaching 300,000 Accounts
2024-12-26 14:42
A Brazilian citizen has been charged in the United States for allegedly threatening to release data stolen by hacking into a company's network in March 2020. Junior Barros De Oliveira, 29, of Curitiba, Brazil has been charged with four counts of extortionate threats involving information obtained from protected computers and four counts of threatening communications, the U.S. Department of
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