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Man Arrested for Snowflake Hacking Spree Faces US Extradition
Alexander “Connor” Moucka was arrested this week by Canadian authorities for allegedly carrying out a series of hacks that targeted Snowflake’s cloud customers. His next stop may be a US jail.
As WIRED reported in July, American hacker John Binns was allegedly involved in the Snowflake-related AT&T breach, which saw the company pay out more than $300,000 to have millions of stolen customer records deleted. According to Nixon, Waifu, now alleged to be Moucka, emerged from a cybercriminal community known as “the Com,” an underground network of young hackers and trolls active on platforms like Telegram and Discord and responsible for hacking and other digital crimes including ransomware, SIM swapping, cryptocurrency theft, sextortion, and harassment. Waifu subsequently tried to cover up this accidental reveal with false leads and misinformation posted to Telegram, what he described as “well poison.” But Nixon says law enforcement has nonetheless been aware of Moucka’s identity since at least early July.
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