CONNOR Moucka, a 26-year-old from Kitchener, Ontario, pleaded guilty to a hacking conspiracy that compromised over 165 organizations, stealing billions of records and extorting victims for millions. The attacks targeted a U.S.-based cloud storage provider, Snowflake, using stolen login credentials without multi-factor authentication.
Moucka and his accomplices earned over $2.5 million from extortion, causing more than $9.5 million in direct losses to companies and affecting over 100 million individuals' sensitive data. He faces up to 30 years in prison. His case highlights the increasing prevalence of re-extortion tactics in cybercrime.