Amazing how the perp started the website at 14 and gradually turned it into the top data leaks site in the world. To be able to build a multi million dollar illegal marketplace and not get caught for 7 years was quite an achievement in itself. Alas you just have to slip once and the party's over.
RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
This guy was under the impression that what he was doing wasn’t illegal. IANAL but the fact that he is being charged with access device fraud might suggest that DOJ had to engage in some mental gymnastics in order to charge this. E: I’ll take that back since I actually read the indictment now, besides the usual raidforums fare he was also selling credit card data which would very much tend to attract access device fr…
I already said he wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Cut him some slack he was literally a teen when he got arrested.
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#33I wish the DOJ had a better designer for their domain seizure graphics.
Idea for a HN contest: design a better DOJ domain seizure graphic. Bonus points for features like "enter personal identifying information here to be notified when your favorite illegal site is back online". ...although I guess they did that last part for a while before they changed the graphic.
"Show HN: I trained a GAN to generate DOJ seizure graphics!"
Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested
#34"Coelho landed on the radar of U.S. authorities in June 2018, when he tried to enter the United States at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The government obtained a warrant to search the electronic devices Coelho had in his luggage and found text messages, files and emails showing he was the RaidForums administrator Omnipotent." Not really the sharpest knife in the drawer, to do things like th…
I am always surprised at how often people who know each other randomly run into each other in an airport.
I mean, what are the odds?
I only had it happen once, but it was nuts. A guy from my previous company I ran into randomly in Frankfurt while I was on my way to India. He lives in California, I live in Chicago. We were on the same flight to Bangalore. Our trips had nothing to do with each other, other than we both work in tech and were visiting tech companies. Neither of us traveled internationally all that often.
I knew a half dozen folks with crazy "what are the odds" stories like that.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not to mention the following paragraph: >“In an attempt to retrieve his items, Coelho called the lead FBI case agent on or around August 2, 2018, and used the email address unrivalled@pm.me to email the agent,” the government’s affidavit states. Investigators found this same address was used to register rf.ws and raid.lol, which Omnipotent announced on the forum would serve as alternative domain names for RaidForums…
There was a big thread there of people trying to hack the EU-DCC using a leaked "signing key". The key was one of the example keys I've been giving non-technical people who are working on it and want to run the software locally. It was the blind leading the blind but a lot of fun to watch.
> It was the blind leading the blind but a lot of fun to watch.
yeah, in places like that you get banned for offering alternate perspectives like telling them it doesn't have the significance they think it has
better to just sell them infowars branded coffee mugs and move on.
Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested
#36"Coelho landed on the radar of U.S. authorities in June 2018, when he tried to enter the United States at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The government obtained a warrant to search the electronic devices Coelho had in his luggage and found text messages, files and emails showing he was the RaidForums administrator Omnipotent." Not really the sharpest knife in the drawer, to do things like th…
I am always surprised at how often people who know each other randomly run into each other in an airport. I mean, what are the odds? I only had it happen once, but it was nuts. A guy from my previous company I ran into randomly in Frankfurt while I was on my way to India. He lives in California, I live in Chicago. We were on the same flight to Bangalore . Our trips had nothing to do with each other, other than we bot…
Seems like a variation of the birthday paradox.
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#37"Coelho landed on the radar of U.S. authorities in June 2018, when he tried to enter the United States at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The government obtained a warrant to search the electronic devices Coelho had in his luggage and found text messages, files and emails showing he was the RaidForums administrator Omnipotent." Not really the sharpest knife in the drawer, to do things like th…
I am always surprised at how often people who know each other randomly run into each other in an airport. I mean, what are the odds? I only had it happen once, but it was nuts. A guy from my previous company I ran into randomly in Frankfurt while I was on my way to India. He lives in California, I live in Chicago. We were on the same flight to Bangalore . Our trips had nothing to do with each other, other than we bot…
It’s probably just a symptom of humans being very bad at estimating odds.
Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am always surprised at how often people who know each other randomly run into each other in an airport. I mean, what are the odds? I only had it happen once, but it was nuts. A guy from my previous company I ran into randomly in Frankfurt while I was on my way to India. He lives in California, I live in Chicago. We were on the same flight to Bangalore . Our trips had nothing to do with each other, other than we bot…
Seems like a variation of the birthday paradox.
Not exactly, because the scenario isn’t “any two people on the plane” but “me and another person on the plane”.
Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested
#39"Coelho landed on the radar of U.S. authorities in June 2018, when he tried to enter the United States at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The government obtained a warrant to search the electronic devices Coelho had in his luggage and found text messages, files and emails showing he was the RaidForums administrator Omnipotent." Not really the sharpest knife in the drawer, to do things like th…
> Not really the sharpest knife in the drawer, to do things like this and then to go holidaying in the USA with incriminating stuff on your person...
The US could have gone after him any time it wanted in nearly any country, including his home in Portugal. They actually arrested him in the UK.
This issue with the warrant when he entered was a procedural thing that appeared out of convenience. They could have cooperated with Portugal to get the equivalent done there. They just saw this low hanging fruit flagged on a flight manifest and was like "sure why not".
Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested
#40"Coelho landed on the radar of U.S. authorities in June 2018, when he tried to enter the United States at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The government obtained a warrant to search the electronic devices Coelho had in his luggage and found text messages, files and emails showing he was the RaidForums administrator Omnipotent." Not really the sharpest knife in the drawer, to do things like th…
> Coelho landed on the radar of U.S. authorities in June 2018, when he tried to enter the United States at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The government obtained a warrant to search the electronic devices Coelho had in his luggage and found text messages, files and emails showing he was the RaidForums administrator Omnipotent
I called complete, total and utter bullshit. That's a parallel construction if I ever saw one. Very few people get their devices searched (I know maybe one in 100) and, oh-the-coincidence, this guy happens to be that "Omnipotent" admin of a cybercrime forum?
Yeah. I've got a bridge to sell you too.