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US charges alleged extortionist, HeheStreams operator with demanding $150K from MLB

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U.S. prosecutors have charged a 30-year-old man with attempting to extort Major League Baseball and broadcasting illegal game streams after he allegedly breached the league’s website. Attorneys from the Southern District of New York charged Joshua Streit with running HeheStreams.com, a website that allowed users to stream games from the MLB, National Hockey League, National Basketball Association and the National Football League for a fee, according to a complaint. The site attracted a sizable following on social media and discussion forums like Reddit, where fans congregated to praise the cheap prices HeheStreams offered in comparison to the leagues’ official streaming services, the Wall Street Journal reported. In March 2021, prosecutors say, Streit contacted MLB personnel to complain about “a lack of gratitude” after he alerted the organization about a “network vulnerability.” Streit allegedly requested $150,000 from the MLB in exchange for his apparent disclosure. An MLB executive responded to Streit […]

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Vault 7 suspect Joshua Schulte says pretrial conditions are ‘worse than death’

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The former CIA employee charged with leaking details about agency hacking tools says he is being held under “barbaric and inhumane” conditions in a Manhattan federal facility as he awaits a second trial in the case. Lawyers for Joshua Schulte filed a petition last week on his behalf asking a New York federal judge to force the Bureau of Prisons to improve conditions at the Metropolitan Correction Center (MCC). The 32-year-old software engineer has been in solitary confinement for more than two years, according to the documents. He is accused of providing the so-called Vault 7 files, which detailed the U.S. government’s offensivie hacking capabilities, to WikiLeaks, which published the documents in 2017. “It is barbaric and inhumane to lock human beings into boxes for years and years — it is a punishment worse than death and there is no wonder that MCC inmates would rather kill themselves than continue […]

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Russian man sentenced to 12 years in prison for massive JPMorgan data heist

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A U.S. federal judge on Thursday sentenced Andrei Tyurin, a 37-year-old Russian man, to 12 years in prison for his role in a hacking scheme that prosecutors say involved the theft of personal data from over 100 million customers of big U.S. financial firms. The brazen hacking operation, which ran from 2012 to 2015, is one of the biggest to hit Wall Street in recent memory. It involved Tyurin allegedly working with an Israeli man named Gery Shalon, among others, to breach big-name companies like JPMorgan Chase, ETrade and The Wall Street Journal. The scammers then sought to inflate stock prices by marketing them to people whose data they had stolen. Tyurin’s breach of JPMorgan Chase alone saw data on 80 million customers stolen, according to prosecutors. The Russian man made $19 million altogether from the hacking, the Justice Department said in a statement. The case is a win for […]

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Man who allegedly leaked CIA hacking tools says he’s been tortured and is owed $50 billion

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A former CIA computer engineer compared himself to a victim of the Nazis and said the government has caused him to lose more than $50 billion in income in a new court filing accusing the U.S. Department of Justice of violating his civil rights. Joshua Schulte, a former software engineer, has filed a preliminary complaint seeking immediate release from federal detention, according to court documents filed earlier this month. Schulte was arrested in 2017, accused of crimes including sexual assault, possessing child pornography and, later, providing documents detailing CIA hacking capabilities to WikiLeaks. Schulte now argues that he has suffered “irreparable harm from torture imposed by the Federal Terrorists” and that he needs to be released in order to prepare a legal defense. The complaint was first noticed by independent journalist Marcy Wheeler. His argument asserts that there is no difference between pretrial detention and federal incarceration. It then goes on […]

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