Microsoft Security Response Center put out a blog post today about Eclipse Nightmare guy
Basically they think he's super mean and totally not cool he's dropping zero days. They say you're a jerk if you do this stuff because it's dangerous and stuff
https://t.co/Bg5iFxI3lc
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โ Kai West was 25, British, and running the dark web's biggest stolen data marketplace under the name IntelBroker
โ His victim list reads like a who's who. Apple. AMD. Cisco. Nokia. General Electric. Europol. The US Pentagon.
โ And a database containing the personal information of every member of the US Congress.
โ He sold everything in Monero only. Untraceable by design. For 2 years nobody could touch him.
โ Then in January 2023 an FBI agent reached out to buy $250 worth of stolen data and talked him into accepting Bitcoin just this once
โ That $250 went into a wallet tied to his real Coinbase account. Registered with his actual UK driver's license. His real name and his real face.
โ The FBI spent the next 2 years quietly building the case. Matching his YouTube watch history to posts on his hacker forum. Piecing everything together.
โ He even had a fake LinkedIn saying he worked at the UK equivalent of the FBI. They publicly said they had never heard of him.
โ In January 2025 he stepped down from running the forum. Said he was "too busy."
โ He was arrested in France 3 weeks later.
โ $25 million in damage. 40+ companies. 2 years of running the biggest stolen data operation on the dark web.
Brought down by $250 and one moment of trusting the wrong coin.
The most untraceable hacker on the internet forgot that Coinbase needs your ID.
@MvsonMae I rather this than it fizz out due to no foot traffic. Iโve seen them host a lot of non-white people and itโs a great place to relax and listen.
NVE groups like O9A, 764, ToB are the most multicultural extremist group in the U.S. and globally and growing in numbers daily. Exacerbated by poor socialization, hyperonline, neurodivergence, coming of age in a hopeless traumatic miserable decade. Radicalize ALL demographics.