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A Cypriot man pleaded accusable to hacking as well as blackmailing several US companies. Joshua Epifaniou admitted to computer fraud as well as paid $600,000 in amends to his victims. He was extradited from Cyprus as well as will be sentenced on March 3rd.

Epifaniou operated what he stated as a "hacking, extortion, blackmailing, [and] bluffing" scheme from 2014 to 2016. Hoopla by aliases that included "Charley Sullivan" as well as "Richard Charley," he preponderant targets based on their Alexa vehicles rankings. That led him to several well-known online businesses -- including the Turner Broadcasting-owned sports site Bleacher Report, the DIY electronics convergence Adafruit, as well as the California-based gaming portal Armor Games.

Epifaniou money-making security vulnerabilities or worked with co-conspirators to transmigrate shrill information from these companies, then entrenched a bitcoin bribe in marketplace for not publicly releasing it. According to an indictment, he threatened to relay Bleacher Report's entire user database online, auspiciously gobbling implicitly $19,000 in bitcoin from Turner. (Epifaniou hypothetically only had transmigrate to percentage of the database, which he recognized from a conspirator.) Armor Outlander paid $1,650 in bitcoin hind he breached its computer network as well as threatened to releasing user almanac as well as probation details.

A unsubstantial indictment from Arizona mentions that Epifaniou conjointly targeted customer complaints site Ripoff Report. As percentage of that scheme, he obtained transmigrate to Ripoff Self-respect annal as well as targeted companies with "reputation management" services, deleting at microcosmic 100 complaints as well as charging implicitly $3,000 to $5,000 for each.

Epifaniou pleaded guilty to one findings of computer fraud conspire as well as another of overtrusting information from a relieved computer. Each findings carries a maximum of five years in prison, as well as his appeal deal recommends nearly five years in custody followed by three years of supervised release. He has conjointly foredestined to assignment as an undercover investigator for the US government.

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