Someone is hacking the hackers

Re:Someone is hacking the hackers by ryanlol on Sunday March 07, 2021 @11:56AM (#26377444)

People have lost hundreds of thousands because they reused their forum logins on jabber... Lots (most?) of the people on these forums aren’t hackers, but banking experts moving tens of millions of stolen money around the world.

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Re:Someone is hacking the hackers by nullCommand on Sunday March 07, 2021 @10:19PM (#26382009)

What's stolen? The user gave contest to us. We are simply acting to that contest.

The US GOV need to focus more on Tether not us because Tether steals billions of dollars directly from economy. Everybody know who is Merlin!

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Re:Someone is hacking the hackers by tgsovlerkhgsel on Sunday March 07, 2021 @12:07PM (#26377530)

How did they lose the money, impersonation? Are they running some informal banking/laundering system via jabber chats?

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Re:Someone is hacking the hackers by ryanlol on Sunday March 07, 2021 @12:16PM (#26377613)

Hey, here’s my new bitcoin address for payments:

Hey, here’s the new bank account info to send stolen money to:

Hey bro, can you borrow me 100k for a few days?

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Re:Someone is hacking the hackers by nullCommand on Sunday March 07, 2021 @10:21PM (#26382022)

We simply ask the user to install an App to iOS or Android that gives us two factor codes. This is done with the user contest. At least, that's how I do these things.

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