A Brazilian citizen has been charged in america for allegedly threatening to launch information stolen by hacking into an organization’s community in March 2020.
Junior Barros De Oliveira, 29, of Curitiba, Brazil has been charged with 4 counts of extortionate threats involving info obtained from protected computer systems and 4 counts of threatening communications, the U.S. Division of Justice (DoJ) stated in an unsealed indictment earlier this week.
The stated sufferer, a Brazilian subsidiary of a New Jersey-based firm, had its computer systems breached by the defendant, who then exploited the entry to steal confidential buyer info from about 300,000 clients on at the least three events.
De Oliveira is alleged to have subsequently despatched the chief government officer (CEO) of the corporate an e-mail message in September 2020 utilizing an alias, demanding a fee of 300 bitcoin (valued at about $3.2 million on the time) in return for not promoting the info.
A month later, the defendant forwarded the aforementioned message to each the CEO and an government working within the Brazilian subsidiary.
In one of many follow-up messages despatched to a consultant of the corporate, De Oliveira stated he “very interested in helping you guys solve this security flaw” however stated it can incur a consulting charge of 75 bitcoin (about $800,000 on the time). The defendant additionally supplied directions on the way to make the fee to a Bitcoin pockets.
Every of the 4 counts of extortionate threats carries a most jail time period of 5 years, and a most high-quality of $250,000 or twice the worth of any acquire or loss, whichever is bigger.
Likewise, every of the 4 counts of threatening communications carries a most jail time period of two years, and a most high-quality of $250,000 or twice the worth of any acquire or loss, whichever is bigger.
