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Anonymous Hacker Exposed After Dropping USB Drive

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday June 26 2019, @08:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the opsec-fail dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1944

In a bizarre investigation, Belgium police have identified a member of the Anonymous Belgium hacker collective while investigating an arson case at a local bank. The perpetrator, a 35-year-old man from the Belgian city of Roeselare, was initially arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Crelan Bank office in Rumbeke, a suburb of Roeselare, back in 2014.

Police tracked down the suspect because he dropped a USB thumb drive on the ground while/after throwing the Molotov cocktail. Data on the thumb drive led police to a local man identified in court documents only by Brecht S.. A subsequent house search and investigation into the man's background and computer devices revealed a long history of cyber-crimes.

Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/anonymous-hacker-exposed-after-dropping-usb-drive-while-throwing-molotov-cocktail/

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 27 2019, @02:32AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 27 2019, @02:32AM (#860350)

    I once accidentally the a micro SD in the garbage bin. It took me hours to find it because it had a small piece of sticky tape on it so it stuck to some object when it fell in the trash.

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday June 27 2019, @07:23PM

    by Bot (3902) on Thursday June 27 2019, @07:23PM (#860653) Journal

    You accidentally what?
    A: the a Micro SD.

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