In recent weeks, the Lapsus$ hacking gang claimed responsibility for gaining access to business data from Nvidia, Samsung, Ubisoft, Okta, and even Microsoft, and according to a new Bloomberg article, the operation may be led by an England-based adolescent.
Bloomberg reports that the adolescent is stationed around five miles outside of Oxford University and that it was able to communicate with his mother for 10 minutes via a “doorbell intercom system” at his home. According to the magazine, the teenager’s mother was unaware of the claims against him. “She refused to discuss her son or make him accessible for an interview, stating that the incident was a matter for law enforcement and that she had contacted the police,” Bloomberg said.
However, Lapsus$ does not appear to be limited to the England-based adolescent. Bloomberg adds that one alleged member is another Brazilian teenager and that the gang has been linked to seven distinct accounts. According to Bloomberg, one of the group’s members is supposedly such a skilled hacker that experts assumed the operation was automated.
According to cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs, a core member of Lapsus$, who may have gone by the names “Oklaqq” and “WhiteDoxbin,” also owned Doxbin, a website that allows users to submit or search for other people’s personal information for the purpose of doxing. This WhiteDoxbin individual was apparently not the best administrator and was forced to sell the site back to its previous owner, but he leaked “the entire Doxbin data set,” prompting the Doxbin community to dox WhiteDoxbin, “including videos allegedly shot outside his home in the United Kingdom,” Krebs reported.
