The German police are asking for help finding a MAC address

The German is looking for a MAC address of a mobile phone, whose owner is blackmailing the transport company DHL by sending bombs through it.

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In the world of internet and electronics it seems we still have a lot to hear. The reason for the German police, who have been entrusted to the citizens of Germany, to help them find a mobile phone with a specific MAC address.

The owner seems to be a blackmailer of the private courier company DHL, as between November 2017 and April 2018, he delivered improvised explosive devices through DHL to different addresses in Brandenburg and Berlin. In addition, he asked DHL for 10 million euros in bitcoins, to stop his activity.

The package bombs contained nails, screws and explosive powder from fireworks. One of these was taken in 2017, from a central pharmacy, next to a Christmas market, resulting in the market being evacuated. German police discovered a message in the package in which the blackmailer threatened to send more packages unless DHL carried out the .

During the During the investigation, the German police were able to contact the extortionist via e-mail several times and managed to capture the MAC address of the branded device. , which is f8: e0: 79: af: 57: eb.

Since every electronic device comes with a unique MAC address, the German police try to use these to map all public and private Wi-Fi networks used by the culprit, possibly hoping to track him down through any CCTV cameras.

Although the MAC address of a device can be easily tampered with, the Brandenburg State Police Service LKA asked the citizens to check their wireless routers and their network logs (!!!), for the specific MAC address and to provide information via the email soko.quer@polizei.brandenburg.de.

Apparently they believe that the perpetrator uses private WiFi that their rightful owners the default password has not been changed.

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