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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday December 04 2016, @07:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the all-your-hackers-are-belong-to-us dept.

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) was hit with a ransomware attack on Friday, causing fare station terminals to carry the message, "You are Hacked. ALL Data Encrypted." Turns out, the miscreant behind this extortion attempt got hacked himself this past weekend, revealing details about other victims as well as tantalizing clues about his identity and location.

On Monday, KrebsOnSecurity was contacted by a security researcher who said he hacked this very same cryptom27@yandex.com inbox after reading a news article about the SFMTA incident. The researcher, who has asked to remain anonymous, said he compromised the extortionist's inbox by guessing the answer to his secret question, which then allowed him to reset the attacker's email password. A screen shot of the user profile page for cryptom27@yandex.com shows that it was tied to a backup email address, cryptom2016@yandex.com, which also was protected by the same secret question and answer.

Live by the hack, die by the hack.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @07:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @07:41AM (#436812)

    IT guys get no respect, because they live in the really real world where barely functional infrastructure is made from unreliable immature technology, but they have to work in the delusional fantasy world of social bullshit where nothing should ever break down.

  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @07:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @07:48AM (#436816)

    Turns out social bullshit is how you get the yacht and get to spend all your time in Ibiza partying. Time to reroll this character.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @08:20AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 04 2016, @08:20AM (#436823)

      Yachting around with a bunch of vacuous superficial dullards is not my idea of a good time. It would be nice if there were a middle ground between dirt poor and filthy rich, and we could call it the middle class, you know what disappeared during your great recession, mister gatsby. Are we going to need to have another war to justify raising taxes on you rich leeches so the rest of us can live in peace. Because if not it's clear to me that the future for nerds is prison just like terrychilds, after society has no use left for technical people who for the past forty years have survived without needing social skills. The personal computing revolution was an anomaly it seems, but the anomalous period has ended, and the new social age is upon us. Terrychilds is the trailblazing pioneer for all uppity nerds who will end up in prison inevitably, and in prison we will find the promised basic income.