Recorded Future: doxxing to the hacker of Dropbox, LinkedIn, and Twitter

Recorded Future, an American security company, claims that he revealed την πραγματική ταυτότητα ενός γνωστού hacker ο οποίος το 2016, φέρεται να διέθεσε στην αγορά πάρα πολλές βάσεις δεδομένων από τις MySpace, Badoo, Dropbox, LinkedIn and Twitter.

The hacker's nickname is Tessa88, but Recorded Future claims that behind it is 29-year-old Maksim Vladimirovich Donakov, from Penza, Russia.

Tessa88 is known as one of the two hackers - along with Peace_of_Mind - who are behind the so-called "mega breaches" we saw in 2016.

Ορισμένες από τις βάσεις δεδομένων που δημοσίευσε online ο Tessa88 περιείχαν δεδομένα χρηστών και μερικές φορές και κωδικούς πρόσβασης, από τις εταιρείες MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Badoo, QIP, Rambler, and Mobango. Peace_of_Mind also marketed some of the same databases, but also some different ones.

But neither Tessa88 nor Peace_of_Mind were the real hackers who broke into these companies. Both referred to many interviews given to the media, that they only acted as intermediaries for a group of hackers who carried out the hacks.

Both were inactive for long. The παρατήρησαν τον Tessa88 ενεργό ενώ προσπαθούσε να πουλήσει τις βάσεις δεδομένων σε υπόγεια φόρουμ hacking και σε of the Dark Web in February and May 2016.

However, despite the limited activity of Tessa88, Recorded Future announced today that it has managed to link several online identities under the pseudonym Tessa88 and later with Maksim Donakov.

The researchers found videos on YouTube, images from forums and Imgur, as well as three profiles on Odnoklassniki (A Russian social network for classmates) that provided enough evidence to identify Maksim Donakov as the person behind Tessa88. The two most important indications were:

Photos of Donakov's face that had many profiles, linking various alternative Tessa88 nicknames.

A YouTube video showing the license plate of one of Tessa88's alternate names, which later revealed Donakov's real name.

Below is one of Recorded Future, detailing their findings.

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