Bad OPSEC - How The Feds Traced a Monero User

In this video I discuss how the hacker responsible for the Vastaamo data breach incident was caught due to numerous OPSEC mistakes and not really any flaws with the Monero protocol.
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[@rulu1828]

Rule 1 of Crime: Don't talk about the crime

[@unseenxxx]

>tar contained his entire home directory

[@bronysrule]

“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learn from the mistakes of others”- Otto Von Bismark

[@lightfox11]

the fact he would actually post his user folder to the internet really shows how sloppy this pos is

[@blackpolygon9306]

The hacker accidentally uploading their home directory is a plot twist that would be called "unbelievable", "lazy wiriting" and similar if it would happen in a movie/show. Literally can't write that stuff.

[@Onni-]

I think the login for vastaamo was something like admin admin. No wonder they got extorted.

[@waryth4475]

Poor Monero-chan getting her reputation damaged with this blunder.

[@dontbestupid6664]

Scamming sick people who are already spending money they dont have on saving their own lives? How low can you go?

[@cleoh3]

If this guy wasn't such a showman, and had just contacted vastaamo directly, they probably would have paid right up if it meant it stayed out of the news and the data didn't get released. As soon as the media picks it up, they can't pay because it would be a PR nightmare. Makes you wonder how many companies are extorted by hackers without egos and we never even hear about it.

[@dshaf7]

Mf was finnish before he even started

[@maiastniki]

why is it ALWAYS someone telling on themselves????

[@pajeetsingh]

tarred his home folder? he was surely stoned to do that.

[@Hentai_Protag]

"Even a fish wouldn't have gotten caught if it just kept its mouth closed."

[@SongOfDeer]

8:24

[@BillyBob-kj4qq]

Hack snitches telling all their business, sitting in the court and be their own star witness.

[@dzuchun]

"archive contained his entire home folder"

[@More_Row]

Deserved arrest. Don't fuck with peoples mental health records or private data like that.

[@ApocDevTeam]

Their security policy was probably "it won't happen to us".

[@that_is_not_me]

How do you accidentally tar your whole home folder, upload it, and not notice that it's way bigger than expected?

[@iamfishmind]

heard a hundred thousand facepalms when he said he uploaded his f'ing home folder