> It was the laziness that got him. > Sabu had always been cautious, hiding his Internet protocol address through proxy servers. But then just once he slipped.

> It was the laziness that got him. > Sabu had always been cautious, hiding his Internet protocol address through proxy servers. But then just once he slipped. He logged into an Internet relay chatroom from his own IP address without masking it. All it took was once. The feds had a fix on him. (https://www.foxnews.com/tech/exclusive-unmasking-the-worlds-most-wanted-hacker https://www.foxnews.com/tech/exclusive-unmasking-the-worlds-...) Fascinating that an auto-login setting on his mIRC client probably led him to be caught.