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It's in the article. Not sure it had his name, but certainly his family name since he looked for records concerning his relatives.

by shellac 9mo ago

ryanlol 9mo ago
The queries appear to have been looking for me specifically, filtering by date of birth. That wouldn't be a good way to find my relatives.
- Eldt 9mo ago
  Damn, some other group trying to cause trouble for you?
  - ryanlol 9mo ago
    I doubt it. I think it's just cops doing shitty work under pressure and then trying to cover it up.
    - treebeard901 9mo ago
      Automating the upload of a home folder to the darkweb in the middle of an extortion attempt would be pretty weak for a "legendary" hacker. whoopsie :D
bitbasher 9mo ago
Ah yes-- I first heard of this via an entertaining video about it, "One Drunken Mistake Destroyed Finland's Scummiest Hacker", see below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCcvPfT_jU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCcvPfT_jU
- ryanlol 9mo ago
  The big problem with this video is that it's basically entirely based on google translated tabloid articles. The results are what you might expect if you decided to just use dailymail.co.uk as a source, similar to the creator of malicious trojan virus Python being arrested https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124114/Computer-hacker-Edward-Pearson-Lendale-York-stole-million-people-s-personal-details-jailed-half-years.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124114/Computer-ha... >Pearson coded trojan viruses, called Zeus, SpyEye and Python, to automatically scour the internet in search of personal details.
  - pizzalife 9mo ago
    It’s really not a good idea to be posting about your case when it hasn’t even been resolved yet.
    - ryanlol 9mo ago
      I do have access to excellent legal advice, strive to live by it.
      - pizzalife 9mo ago
        Well, judging by this thread, it doesn’t seem like it.
        ryanlol 9mo ago
        Yes, I'm sure my comments here are just full of terribly damaging stuff. Not sure what the theory here is. Am I supposed to worry about the judges stalking me online and reading my HN comments professing innocence? The prosecutors couldn't, and wouldn't even want to use anything I've written here, especially considering the trial is over and they can't just file new evidence.
      - bitbasher 9mo ago
        > I do have access to excellent legal advice, strive to live by it. Says the guy that went on a news broadcast (unmasked) to brag about hacking Sony. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPX8yCBdIZ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPX8yCBdIZ8
        ryanlol 9mo ago
        I was 17 at the time :) And FWIW, the whole joke there was that neither me nor the other guy being interviewed had anything at all to do with the attacks on PSN and XBL.
        r_lee 9mo ago

It's in the article. Not sure it had his name, but certainly his family name since he looked for records concerning his relatives.

by shellac 9mo ago

It's in the article. Not sure it had his name, but certainly his family name since he looked for records concerning his relatives.

ryanlol 9mo ago

The queries appear to have been looking for me specifically, filtering by date of birth. That wouldn't be a good way to find my relatives.

Eldt 9mo ago
Damn, some other group trying to cause trouble for you?
- ryanlol 9mo ago
  I doubt it. I think it's just cops doing shitty work under pressure and then trying to cover it up.
  - treebeard901 9mo ago
    Automating the upload of a home folder to the darkweb in the middle of an extortion attempt would be pretty weak for a "legendary" hacker. whoopsie :D

bitbasher 9mo ago

Ah yes-- I first heard of this via an entertaining video about it, "One Drunken Mistake Destroyed Finland's Scummiest Hacker", see below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCcvPfT_jU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCcvPfT_jU

ryanlol 9mo ago
The big problem with this video is that it's basically entirely based on google translated tabloid articles. The results are what you might expect if you decided to just use dailymail.co.uk as a source, similar to the creator of malicious trojan virus Python being arrested https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124114/Computer-hacker-Edward-Pearson-Lendale-York-stole-million-people-s-personal-details-jailed-half-years.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124114/Computer-ha... >Pearson coded trojan viruses, called Zeus, SpyEye and Python, to automatically scour the internet in search of personal details.
- pizzalife 9mo ago
  It’s really not a good idea to be posting about your case when it hasn’t even been resolved yet.
  - ryanlol 9mo ago
    I do have access to excellent legal advice, strive to live by it.
    - pizzalife 9mo ago
      Well, judging by this thread, it doesn’t seem like it.
      - ryanlol 9mo ago
        Yes, I'm sure my comments here are just full of terribly damaging stuff. Not sure what the theory here is. Am I supposed to worry about the judges stalking me online and reading my HN comments professing innocence? The prosecutors couldn't, and wouldn't even want to use anything I've written here, especially considering the trial is over and they can't just file new evidence.
    - bitbasher 9mo ago
      > I do have access to excellent legal advice, strive to live by it. Says the guy that went on a news broadcast (unmasked) to brag about hacking Sony. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPX8yCBdIZ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPX8yCBdIZ8
      - ryanlol 9mo ago
        I was 17 at the time :) And FWIW, the whole joke there was that neither me nor the other guy being interviewed had anything at all to do with the attacks on PSN and XBL.
        r_lee 9mo ago