The defendant is a U.K. national who pleaded guilty for stealing sensitive user data of ‘innumerable’ U.S. firms and blackmailing victims for ransom.
U.S. District Judge Ronnie White has sentenced a U.K. national and member of The Dark Overlord hacking group, Nathan Wyatt, five years jail time after the defendant pleaded guilty to all the federal charges against him on Monday. Wyatt will also pay $1,467,048 in restitution.
The 39-year old Wyatt is charged for stealing personally identifiable information (PII) of customers of several U.S. firms, conspiring to commit identity theft, and computer fraud. His activities started as far back as 2016.
After stealing sensitive customer data, Wyatt blackmailed the victim companies into paying a ransom in bitcoin. If they refused, the accused threatened them of releasing their customer records on criminal marketplaces.
Message sent to Dark Overlord hackers to a school in the US.
Wyatt targeted computer networks of numerous U.S. firms in St. Louis, Missouri, and the trial was held in the same city. Most of his victims included healthcare providers and accounting firms.
It is worth noting that in 2018, Serbian authorities also arrested a 38-year-old man from Belgrade suspected of being one of the members of The Dark Overlord or DarkOverlord hacking group.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), Wyatt was an active member of the Dark Overlord hackers collective. He admit ..
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