In March 2020, a Brazilian national was accused in the United States with threatening to reveal data that had been taken through network hacking.
In an unsealed indictment earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) charged 29-year-old Junior Barros De Oliveira of Curitiba, Brazil, with four counts of extortionate threats involving information taken from protected computers and four counts of threatening communications.
The defendant gained access to the computers of the aforementioned victim, a Brazilian subsidiary of a firm situated in New Jersey, and used that access to steal private customer data from about 300,000 consumers on three separate occasions read more about Brazilian Hacker Charged for Extorting $3.2M in Bitcoin After Breaching 300000 Accounts.
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