Upon filtering out the duplicate data, the overall accounts breached amounted to just about 8.5 million (particularly 8,460,182).
USDoD is a repeat federal offender
This isn’t the primary time USDoD has sneaked right into a federal system. Beforehand often called “NetSec” on RaidForums, USDoD has gained notoriety because the menace actor’s “#RaidAgainstTheUS” marketing campaign concentrating on the US Military and Protection contractors.
In December 2022, USDoD posted hacked information from InfraGard, a partnership between the FBI and personal sector companies, which consisted of non-public particulars about 87000 members of InfraGrad. A subsequent breach included a knowledge leak of 3200 Airbus distributors that USDoD managed to seize utilizing the compromised credentials of a Turkish Airline worker.
“USDoD’s hacking strategy closely depends on social engineering, significantly impersonation. [The hacker] typically positive aspects entry to high-profile entities by impersonating key people,” in line with USDoD’s official X account bio.
USDoD was revealed by SOCRadar to be a person in his mid-30s with roots in South America. Earlier reviews from February 2022, in line with SOCRadar, had painted him as a pro-Russian menace actor which he refuted afterward saying his affiliation with Russia was strictly enterprise and non-political.
USDoD maintains a devoted Telegram channel, SparrowCorp, to replace his followers about his current hacks and share hyperlinks for gross sales of the leaked information. On April 7, he made two posts relating to the EPA breach. “I obtained entry to a US federal jurisdiction information that can make InfraGard appear like an newbie job,” the hacker posted about 12 hours earlier than including, “Good night, Group. Epa gov database have been shared with a complete of 15M rows.”
