The Hacker News reports a significant arrest:
Canadian law enforcement authorities have arrested an individual who is suspected to have conducted a series of hacks stemming from the breach of cloud data warehousing platform Snowflake earlier this year.
The individual in question, Alexander “Connor” Moucka (aka Judische and Waifu), was apprehended on October 30, 2024, on the basis of a provisional arrest warrant, following a request by the U.S.
The development was first reported by Bloomberg and corroborated by 404 Media. The exact nature of the charges against Moucka is currently not known.
The Snowflake attack has been linked to at least 165 affected entities, including AT&T, LendingTree, Neiman Marcus, Santander, and Ticketmaster (Live Nation). The amount of extortion some may have paid has not been revealed, although WIRED reported that AT&T reportedly paid $370,000.
Read more at The Hacker News.
