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How the FBI and Mandiant caught a ‘serial hacker’ who tried to fake his own death
Jesse Kipf was a prolific hacker who sold access to systems he hacked, had contacts with a notorious cybercrime gang, and tried to use his hacking skills to get off the grid for good.
Kipf, whom prosecutors later called a “serial hacker” with “ample technical knowledge towards making a living by stealing from others,” had made a series of mistakes, including using his home internet from Somerset, Kentucky to directly connect to the Hawaii death registry system, which eventually led federal agents right to his door. Earlier in September, Mandiant’s Larsen, along with FBI Special Agent Andrew Satornino, and Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky Kate Dieruf, sat down with TechCrunch to reveal how they found Kipf, and brought him to justice. “The Defendant is a serial hacker, stealing personal identifying information and infiltrating protected computer networks of businesses and governmental entities with abandon,” Dieruf wrote in a memorandum asking the court to sentence Kipf to seven years in prison.
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