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Brazilian police arrest alleged hacker behind National Public Data and InfraGard breaches.
Brazil’s Department of Federal Police (DFP) has arrested an individual allegedly responsible for breaching National Public Data, Airbus, and the FBI's InfraGard information-sharing organization, the Record reports. The DFP alleges that the individual is a criminal threat actor who goes by the alias "USDoD."
BleepingComputer notes that USDoD was doxed by CrowdStrike after he breached the cybersecurity firm. CrowdStrike said the hacker was a 33-year-old Brazilian named Luan BG, and USDoD confirmed this information in an interview with HackRead.
The DFP said in a press release (translated from Portuguese), "A search and seizure warrant and a preventive arrest warrant were served in the city of Belo Horizonte/MG against an investigated person suspected of being responsible for two publications selling Federal Police data, on May 22, 2020 and on February 22, 2022. The prisoner boasted of being responsible for several cyber invasions carried out in some countries, claiming, on websites, to have disclosed sensitive data of 80,000 members of InfraGard."