Global InformationVinny Troia information
Vinny Troia | |
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| Education | PhD[citation needed] |
| Alma mater | Capella University, Western Governors University[citation needed] |
| Occupation(s) | Ethical hacker and cybersecurity researcher[1][2] |
| Website | www.vinnytroia.com |
Vincenzo Troia is an American ethical hacker and cybersecurity researcher who is known for reporting and identifying the Dark Overlord hacker group and hacker pompompurin, who was the owner-operator of the website BreachForums and was also involved in the 2021 FBI email hacking.[3][4] He is also known for disclosing the Shanghai police database leak in 2022.[5][6]
Troia also serves as CEO and principal security researcher at Night Lion Security, a cyber-security firm based in the US[7] and founded a threat intelligence firm named Shadowbyte.[1]
In 2018, Troia found a data leak of nearly 340 million detailed records about individual people available on a publicly accessible server of Exactis.[8][9]
In 2019, he found a data breach in People Data Labs where records of personal data, including email addresses, employers, locations, job titles, names, phone numbers and social media profiles of 1.2 billion people were exposed.[10][11]
In 2020, Troia identified and wrote a report on an entire underground cybercrime economy built on the stealing of reselling of video game passwords.[12] The white paper, published by Troia and Night Lion Security, outlines the process by which hackers make money by stealing and reselling Fortnite video game cosmetics, some making nearly a million dollars per year.[13] After the hackers gain access to a victim's account, most often by using common or reused passwords, the account's contents are stolen and resold on an underground black market valued at nearly 1 billion dollars annually.[14]
- ^ a b "FBI Email Hoaxer ID'ed by the Guy He Allegedly Loves to Torment". threatpost.com. 16 November 2021.
- ^ "NightLion Worm Takes Revenge on Night Lion Security | Cyware Hacker News". Cyware Labs.
- ^ "FBI system hacked to email 'urgent' warning about fake cyberattacks". www.bleepingcomputer.com.
- ^ "Wait—The FBI Got Hacked Over a Beef With a Guy Named Vinny?". www.thedailybeast.com.
- ^ "China Police Database Was Left Open Online for Over a Year, Enabling Leak". www.wsj.com.
- ^ Gan, Yong Xiong,Hannah Ritchie,Nectar (5 July 2022). "Nearly one billion people in China had their personal data leaked, and it's been online for more than a year". CNN.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Hacker breaches security firm in act of revenge". www.zdnet.com.
- ^ "Exactis said to have exposed 340 million records in massive leak". CNET.
- ^ "A New Data Leak Reportedly Exposed 230 Million Americans' Personal Information". fortune.com.
- ^ Reichert, Corinne. "1.2 billion records exposed in unsecured database". www.cnet.com.
- ^ Newman, Lily Hay. "1.2 Billion Records Found Exposed Online in a Single Server". Wired.com.
- ^ Winder, Davey. "Fortnite Hackers Earn $1 Million A Year—Stealing Your Skins". Forbes.
- ^ "Fortnite Hackers Earn $1 Million A Year—Stealing Your Skins". Forbes. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
- ^ "Fortnite 'black-market' part of billion-dollar hacker economy, report claims". Fox News. 27 August 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2023.