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21-Year-Old Cypriot Hacker Extradited to U.S. Over Fraud and Extortion Charges.
The United States Department of Justice has extradited two criminals
from the Republic of Cyprus—one is a computer hacker suspected of cyber
intrusions and extortion, and the other is a money launderer with known
connections to the terrorist organization Hezbollah.
Both suspects—Joshua Polloso Epifaniou, 21, a resident of Nicosia, and Ghassan Diab, 37, a citizen of Lebanon—were arrested earlier last year and extradited to the United States last weekend.
According to the indictment, Epifaniou conducted a brute force attack against the Phoenix-based online review portal Ripoff Report (ROR) in October 2016 and successfully override ROR's login and password protection to gain access to its database through an existing account associated with a ROR employee.
In November 2016, Epifaniou tried to extort the company by emailing ROR's CEO with a hyperlink to a video demonstrating Epifaniou's unauthorized access to the ROR CEO's account, threatening him to publicly disseminate stolen ROR data unless he paid $90,000 within 48 hours.
Between October 2016 and May 2017, Epifaniou also worked with an associate at Glendale-based "SEO Company" to illegally remove complaints posted on ROR's website for whoever interested in paying the company approximately $3,000 to $5,000 per complaint removal.
According to the court documents, Epifaniou and his co-conspirator removed at least 100 complaints from the compromised ROR database for their "clients," which could have profited the SEO Company somewhere between $300,000 and $500,000.
Besides ROR, Epifaniou has also been accused of hacking and extorting websites between October 2014 and November 2016, which included:
To hack into these websites, Epifaniou either directly exploited a security flaw in it and stole its user and customer data, or obtained a portion of the victim website's user data from a co-conspirator who had hacked into the victim network.
Epifaniou allegedly defrauded the victim websites of $56,850 in bitcoin, and two victims incurred losses of more than $530,000 from remediation costs associated with the incident.
Epifaniou is wanted in both the Northern District of Georgia and the District of Arizona. He is charged in the District of Arizona in a 24-count indictment with conspiracy to commit computer hacking, obtain information from a protected computer, intentionally damage a protected computer, and threaten to damage a protected computer.
In the Northern District of Georgia, Epifaniou is charged in a five-count indictment with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit computer fraud and identity theft, and extortion related to a protected computer.
Both suspects—Joshua Polloso Epifaniou, 21, a resident of Nicosia, and Ghassan Diab, 37, a citizen of Lebanon—were arrested earlier last year and extradited to the United States last weekend.
According to the indictment, Epifaniou conducted a brute force attack against the Phoenix-based online review portal Ripoff Report (ROR) in October 2016 and successfully override ROR's login and password protection to gain access to its database through an existing account associated with a ROR employee.
In November 2016, Epifaniou tried to extort the company by emailing ROR's CEO with a hyperlink to a video demonstrating Epifaniou's unauthorized access to the ROR CEO's account, threatening him to publicly disseminate stolen ROR data unless he paid $90,000 within 48 hours.
Between October 2016 and May 2017, Epifaniou also worked with an associate at Glendale-based "SEO Company" to illegally remove complaints posted on ROR's website for whoever interested in paying the company approximately $3,000 to $5,000 per complaint removal.
According to the court documents, Epifaniou and his co-conspirator removed at least 100 complaints from the compromised ROR database for their "clients," which could have profited the SEO Company somewhere between $300,000 and $500,000.
Besides ROR, Epifaniou has also been accused of hacking and extorting websites between October 2014 and November 2016, which included:
- a free online game publisher based in Irvine, California;
- a hardware company based in New York;
- an online employment site headquartered in Innsbrook, Virginia; and
- an online sports news website owned by Turner Broadcasting System Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia.
To hack into these websites, Epifaniou either directly exploited a security flaw in it and stole its user and customer data, or obtained a portion of the victim website's user data from a co-conspirator who had hacked into the victim network.
Epifaniou allegedly defrauded the victim websites of $56,850 in bitcoin, and two victims incurred losses of more than $530,000 from remediation costs associated with the incident.
Epifaniou is wanted in both the Northern District of Georgia and the District of Arizona. He is charged in the District of Arizona in a 24-count indictment with conspiracy to commit computer hacking, obtain information from a protected computer, intentionally damage a protected computer, and threaten to damage a protected computer.
In the Northern District of Georgia, Epifaniou is charged in a five-count indictment with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit computer fraud and identity theft, and extortion related to a protected computer.
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