Bad OPSEC - How The Feds Traced a Monero User

Rule 1 of Crime: Don't talk about the crime

>tar contained his entire home directory This Finnished him

The hacker accidentally uploading their home directory is a plot twist that would be called "unbelievable", "lazy wiriting" and similar if it would happen in a movie/show. Literally can't write that stuff.

Mf was finnish before he even started

the fact he would actually post his user folder to the internet really shows how sloppy this pos is

“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learn from the mistakes of others”- Otto Von Bismark

Scamming sick people who are already spending money they dont have on saving their own lives? How low can you go?

If this guy wasn't such a showman, and had just contacted vastaamo directly, they probably would have paid right up if it meant it stayed out of the news and the data didn't get released. As soon as the media picks it up, they can't pay because it would be a PR nightmare. Makes you wonder how many companies are extorted by hackers without egos and we never even hear about it.

I think the login for vastaamo was something like admin admin. No wonder they got extorted.

Poor Monero-chan getting her reputation damaged with this blunder.

"Even a fish wouldn't have gotten caught if it just kept its mouth closed." - some random guy on the internet

8:24 - We went from "Alright, the guy got a bit cheeky and impatient" to "How was this man even smart enough to hack the database in the first place?" in an instant. Good lord, how does this even happen?

tarred his home folder? he was surely stoned to do that.

why is it ALWAYS someone telling on themselves????

Deserved arrest. Don't fuck with peoples mental health records or private data like that.

One of the biggest mistakes he made (along with the tar fuck up) was that he talked to the police. I read the interrigation documents and were baffeled to see that there were pages after pages on him just casually talking and smart-assing with the police, leading him to straight up admit many of the links in the picture shown in the video. As Finland has a robust western justice system where you need to have proven then suspicion beyond a reasonable doubt I think it might even have been very unlikely to get him convicted without him talking so much.

Hack snitches telling all their business, sitting in the court and be their own star witness.

Their security policy was probably "it won't happen to us".

heard a hundred thousand facepalms when he said he uploaded his f'ing home folder

Vastaamo wasn't an online therapy service, they were a therapist center with multiple locations in alot of major cities in Finland.