Abhishek Mishra reports on one of the revelations in court filings related to the arrest of the owner of RaidForums and the takedown of the forum:
T-Mobile, one of the largest phone carriers in the U.S., tried to pay the hackers to get back its customer data leaked in a previous breach. The move backfired and they lost $200,000 in the process. Hackers continued to sell the data even after receiving the ransom from a third party allegedly representing T-Mobile.
Department of Justice arrested Diogo Santos Coelho who seems to be the administrator of the website that sells stolen data.
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