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How ‘Scattered Spider’ hacked some of the world’s biggest tech giants, and got caught
The prolific hacking group broke into Caesars Entertainment, Coinbase, DoorDash, Mailchimp, Riot Games, Twilio (twice), and dozens more.
The hackers’ most notable sizable cyberattack by way of downtime and impact was the hack against MGM Resorts in September 2023, which reportedly cost the casino and hotel giant at least $100 million. Over the last two years, some of the members of 0ktapus and Scattered Spider have been linked with a similarly nebulous group of cybercriminals known as “ the Com.” People in this wider cybercrime community have committed crimes that crossed over into the real world. In November, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had indicted five hackers: Ahmed Hossam Eldin Elbadawy, 23, of College Station, Texas; Noah Michael Urban, 20, of Palm Coast, Florida, who had been arrested in January; Evans Onyeaka Osiebo, 20, of Dallas, Texas; Joel Martin Evans, 25, of Jacksonville, North Carolina; and Tyler Robert Buchanan, 22, from the United Kingdom, who was arrested in June in Spain.
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