It's interesting that the "hacker" himself was caught via hackery. When I worked on anti-cheating stuff for a game company, I was able to stop the seller of the cheat because their cheat had been stolen and resold so they had to put anti cheating tech in their cheating tech and it opened a hole I was able to exploit to detect them.
I wonder how much of his personal information was gleaned from "respectable" American companies like Lexis-Nexis, Equifax, and Transperian? I'm sure they gave everything and medical history for the price of a few coins. I have no respect for companies that don't respect my privacy. And I make it a habit of giving them as much useless, inaccurate information as possible.
Damn. It does seem that stupid mistakes took him down. Revealing too much about himself on his forum. I mean, if he'd been careful, compromise of that forum would have revealed nothing about him. And for Dog's sake, using the same password on low- and high-security accounts!<p>Of course, the real story could be hidden through parallel construction. But on it's face, this does support the argument that it's stupid mistakes that take people down. Krebs' blog is full of them.<p>Edit: And just to be clear, I'm not even suggesting support for that Ukrainian dickhead. It's just that criminal takedowns are well reported, and so provide cautionary lessons for the rest of us.
Here is a link to the original interview, since neither Krebs nor the people that made the translation seem to believe in citing their sources:<p><a href="https://krober.biz/?p=3200#more-3200" rel="nofollow">https://krober.biz/?p=3200#more-3200</a>