{"id":206370,"date":"2021-03-19T17:47:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/feds-indict-swiss-hacker-behind-massive-verkada-breach\/"},"modified":"2021-03-19T17:47:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:47:56","slug":"feds-indict-swiss-hacker-behind-massive-verkada-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/feds-indict-swiss-hacker-behind-massive-verkada-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"#Feds indict Swiss hacker behind massive Verkada breach"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Feds indict Swiss hacker behind massive Verkada breach<\/strong>”
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The feds have filed criminal charges against a prolific Swiss hacker who took credit for breaking into more than 150,000 security cameras run by a Silicon Valley startup.<\/p>\n

A Seattle grand jury indicted Tillie Kottmann, the 21-year-old hacktivist who claimed to be behind last week\u2019s massive breach of Verkada, which allowed hackers to peep on prisons, schools, hospitals and major companies such as Tesla.<\/p>\n

Known by the monikers \u201cdeletescape\u201d and \u201ctillie crimew,\u201d Kottmann has hacked dozens of companies and government agencies and published private data from more than 100 entities on the internet since 2019, prosecutors say. <\/p>\n

While it doesn\u2019t mention the Verkada attack, the Thursday indictment<\/a> focuses on eight hacks that Kottmann, who uses they\/them pronouns, carried out from February 2020 to January of this year.<\/p>\n

The targets included six private companies, a federal contractor and the Washington State Department of Transportation, the feds said. Prosecutors didn\u2019t name any of the firms, but descript<\/a>ions in the indictment match<\/a> Kottmann\u2019s past statements about their hacks of Japanese automaker Nissan and computer-chip giant Intel.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors noted that Kottmann openly boasted about some of the hacks in Twitter<\/a> posts, like one from May 2020 that said, \u201ci love helping companies open their source code.\u201d<\/p>\n

The feds also claim Kottmann and others promoted their hacking and made money \u201cby designing and selling clothing and paraphernalia related to computer hacking activity and anti-intellectual-property ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kottmann is still in Lucerne, Switzerland, but has been made aware of the charges, which came about a week after Swiss authorities carried out search warrants related to the alleged hacks, according to the feds.<\/p>\n

Kottmann didn\u2019t immediately respond to a Twitter message seeking comment. But they recently told Forbes<\/a> they expected \u201cconsequences\u201d for their hacking, which aimed to expose poor security at powerful entities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to help companies,\u201d Kottmann told the outlet. \u201cThe whole hacker thing, in my opinion should be more about trying to improve the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

That idealism, however, hasn\u2019t swayed federal prosecutors, who say Kottmann could face decades in prison if they\u2019re convicted in the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cWrapping oneself in an allegedly altruistic motive does not remove the criminal stench from such intrusion, theft, and fraud,\u201d acting US Attorney Tessa M. Gorman said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With Post wires<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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