FBI Apprehends Charges Russian Hacker, Closes Down Deer.io Platform
The FBI has shut down Deer.io, a platform used in conjunction with the sale and theft of private data. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has charged a Russian hacker for stealing private information, and has shut down his platform — Deer.io, which moved funds via crypto assets. The FBI shut down the Deer platform on March 24, as per a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ). The platform’s “suspected administrator – alleged Russian hacker Kirill Victorovich Firsov - was arrested and charged with crimes related to the hacking of U.S. companies for customers’ personal information,” the DoJ noted. The FBI detained the alleged infiltrator weeks ago The FBI took Firsov into custody on March 7 while at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport. The Russian allegedly ran Deer.io, a platform spun up in 2013, touting the sale of various types of hijacked data. The operation boasted 24,000 online vendors, hitting more than $17 million in sales. It is unclear whether or not the platform was still up and running between the March 7 arrest, and the March 24 shut down statement from the DoJ.
FBI Apprehends Charges Russian Hacker, Closes Down Deer.io Platform
The FBI has shut down Deer.io, a platform used in conjunction with the sale and theft of private data. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has charged a Russian hacker for stealing private information, and has shut down his platform — Deer.io, which moved funds via crypto assets. The FBI shut down the Deer platform on March 24, as per a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ). The platform’s “suspected administrator – alleged Russian hacker Kirill Victorovich Firsov - was arrested and charged with crimes related to the hacking of U.S. companies for customers’ personal information,” the DoJ noted. The FBI detained the alleged infiltrator weeks ago The FBI took Firsov into custody on March 7 while at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport. The Russian allegedly ran Deer.io, a platform spun up in 2013, touting the sale of various types of hijacked data. The operation boasted 24,000 online vendors, hitting more than $17 million in sales. It is unclear whether or not the platform was still up and running between the March 7 arrest, and the March 24 shut down statement from the DoJ.