Scumbags admit extorting $100k from taxi app biz
Two men have confessed they siphoned confidential information from databases hosted in the Amazon cloud, and then demanded payment to delete their copies of the data.
Brandon Charles Glover, 26, of Winter Springs, Florida, America, and Vasile Mereacre, 23, of Toronto, Canada, each pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to commit extortion involving computers at a San Jose court house in California on Wednesday. In agreeing to admit their crimes, and forgo a lengthy trial, the duo are set to face up to five years in the clink and a fine of $250,000 apiece. They will be sentenced in March.
The two hatched their scam in late 2016: they obtained the private access keys to an Uber backend database hosted by Amazon Web Services-hosted database, and gave the credentials to a “technically proficient hacker,” who used the information to r ..
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