The
Federal
Police
of
Brazil
announced
the
arrest
of
the
hacker
linked
to
a
breach
that
leaked
2.9
billion
records
that
included
sensitive
personal
information,
including
some
Social
Security
numbers.
The
data
from
that
hack,
which
came
to
light
in
August,
was
put
for
sale
on
the
dark
web
in
April
by
an
entity
identifying
themselves
as
USDoD.
As
pointed
out
by
Bleeping
Computer,
according
to
a
machine
translation
of
the
department’s
press
release,
the
hacker
was
linked
to
“two
publications
selling”
federal
police
data.
The
hacker
also
boasted
of
disclosing
the
personal
data
of
80,000
members
of
the
FBI’s
InfraGard
program,
the
department
said.
Security
researchers
at
Atlas
have
created
a
tool
to
search
the
leaked
records
and
told
PCMag
that
the
leak
contains
about
272
million
unique
SSNs,
along
with
as
many
as
600
million
phone
numbers.
National
Public
Data
and
its
parent
company,
Jerico
Pictures,
filed
for
Chapter
11
bankruptcy
earlier
this
month,
facing
a
flood
of
lawsuits
and
potential
penalties
over
the
incident.
“The
person
under
investigation
must
answer
for
the
crime
of
hacking
into
a
computer
device,
qualified
by
obtaining
information,
with
an
increase
in
the
sentence
for
the
commercialization
of
the
data
obtained,”
according
to
the
translation.
The
operation
to
arrest
the
hacker
was
called
“Operation
Data
Breach.”
The
federal
police
says
it
will
continue
to
investigate
if
the
hacker
made
any
other
breaches.
(Originally posted by Jay Peters)
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