DARK OVERLORD CUFFED –
UK man who fought extradition for almost a year is finally on US soil.
Dan Goodin –Dec (****************************************************************, **************************************************** (*********************************************************************: (UTC UTC)
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Nathan Wyatt, (************************************************************, was extradited from the United Kingdom to St. Louis, Missouri, after losing a year-long legal fight to block the transfer. Wyatt was arraigned in US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on Wednesday. He pleaded not guilty.
Anindictmentunsealed in the case alleged Wyatt participated in hacks on three healthcare providers, a medical records company, and an accounting firm. The indictment said Wyatt conspired with other members of the Dark Overlord to hack into the companies, steal their valuable data, and threaten to publish it unless they received payments in bitcoin.
Taunts
The hackers allegedly contacted executives of the hacked companies by email and SMS text messages. When hacked companies were slow to pay the ransoms, the messages often contained threats or taunts. In July 2019, a member of the group sent a text to the daughter of an owner of one of the healthcare providers. One text read: “Hi … you look peaceful … by the way did your daddy tell you he refused to pay us when we stole his company files in 4 days we will be releasing for sale thousands of patient info. Including yours … “
Prosecutors said that Wyatt registered two phone numbers used in the crimes. One number registered a VPN account and Twitter account used in the scheme. The other number sent threatening and extortionate messages to hacked parties.
The indictment made no mention of more than a dozen other hacks that matched the same mode of operation and for which the group took credit. Among them was the
release of nine episodes of (Orange Is the New Black) in April (****************************************************. At the time, the episodes were unavailable on Netflix.according to DataBreaches.net
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