Man Arrested for Snowflake Hacking Spree Faces US Extradition

For much of this summer, a mysterious group of hackers carried out a landmark spree of major data breaches, all targeting customers of the cloud data storage company Snowflake. She alludes to Moucka’s alleged hacking activity going back years prior to the Snowflake breaches. “Waifu was the leader of a group who was responsible for many major intrusions over the last half decade.” Suspicious activity linked to Snowflake customer accounts was first spotted in April, according to a June report by Google-owned security company Mandiant, which was employed by Snowflake to jointly investigate the hacking. The first unknown victim’s Snowflake systems had been accessed using login details that were previously taken by infostealer malware, the report says. Mandiant’s report in June said that the majority of the compromised Snowflake accounts did not have multifactor authentication turned on, and credentials gathered from infostealer logs—some dating back to 2020—were used to access them.