"Two Men Plead Guilty to Hacking Law Enforcement Database for Doxing"
"Two Men Plead Guilty to Hacking Law Enforcement Database for Doxing"
Two men from New York and Rhode Island have recently pleaded guilty to hacking into a database maintained by a US federal law enforcement agency and using stolen personal information to extort people. The Department of Justice (DoJ) said Sagar Steven Singh, 20, and Nicholas Ceraolo, 26, were part of an extortion group called Vile, which sought to harvest personal information and then post or threaten to post it on a public website, an action referred to as doxing. Victims were then asked to pay the miscreants to have their personal information removed from the website.