Ransoms, tattoos and million-dollar bounties: authorities ‘doxx’ an alleged cybercrime kingpin


Source: abc.net.au abc.net.au

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In the right hands — or the wrong ones — it's the kind of sensitive information that could be used to steal a person's identity and wreak financial havoc in their name. But the target of this "doxxing" is allegedly one of the world's most prolific cyber criminals, the leader of a ransomware gang so brazen it offered a million dollars to anyone who could turn up information on the real-world identity of a leader known online as "LockBitSupp". In the end it was authorities in the US, the country most heavily hit by his alleged crimes, who outed Dmitry...