A Brazilian citizen has been charged in the US for allegedly threatening to launch knowledge 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) mentioned in an unsealed indictment earlier this week.
The mentioned 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 prospects on not less than three events.
De Oliveira is alleged to have subsequently despatched the chief govt officer (CEO) of the corporate an e-mail message in September 2020 utilizing an alias, demanding a cost of 300 bitcoin (valued at about $3.2 million on the time) in return for not promoting the information.
A month later, the defendant forwarded the aforementioned message to each the CEO and an govt working within the Brazilian subsidiary.
In one of many follow-up messages despatched to a consultant of the corporate, De Oliveira mentioned he “very serious about serving to you guys remedy this safety flaw” however mentioned it would incur a consulting charge of 75 bitcoin (about $800,000 on the time). The defendant additionally supplied directions on the way to make the cost to a Bitcoin pockets.
Every of the 4 counts of extortionate threats carries a most jail time period of 5 years, and a most positive of $250,000 or twice the worth of any achieve 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 positive of $250,000 or twice the worth of any achieve or loss, whichever is bigger.
