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Crook made millions by breaking into execs’ Office365 inboxes, feds say
Email accounts inside 5 US companies unlawfully breached through password resets.
The action, taken by the office of the US Attorney for the district of New Jersey, accuses UK national Robert B. Westbrook of earning roughly $3.75 million in 2019 and 2020 from stock trades that capitalized on the illicitly obtained information. At the time of the intrusion, the compromised email account of Individual-I contained non-public information about Company-1 's quarterly earnings, which indicated that Company-1 's sales were down. Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption, and passwords.
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