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You should see the work he did on finding the guys behind the Target breach. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/12/whos-selling-credit-cards...



"After searching my huge personal archive of hacked cybercrime forums for Andrew’s various email and Jabber addresses, I found several private messages sent by different users on the Spamdot[dot]biz forum who recommended to other members the “ikaikki@neko.im” Jabber address as someone to contact in order to hire a service that could be used to flood someone’s Gmail inbox with tens or hundreds of thousands of junk messages."

several private messages sent by different users on the Spamdot[dot]biz forum who recommended to other members...

So, an archive of illegally obtained private communication? (Or, is it just questionably obtained by having several false identities across boards? The term hacked forums seems to suggest otherwise)...

I guess that by doing illegal surveillance, one kind find out things that aren't obvious. How surprising.


The sites were hacked by other hackers, and uploaded as a dump to the public. Krebs just has copies of them, that's all.


I think that's still a bit questionable. I'm not allowed to have copies of child porn, even if the children were abused by someone else and they uploaded the photos to the public.




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