Original Source: https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2024/10/16/pf-prende-hacker-de-33-anos-suspeito-de-invadir-sistemas-e-vazar-dados-de-policiais.ghtml
English translation:
A Federal Police arrested on Wednesday (16) a 33-year-old Brazilian hacker suspected of hacking systems of the PF itself and other international institutions and selling the data obtained in these invasions.
The hacker was arrested in Belo Horizonte (MG). His computer was seized.
According to a TV Globo, the investigation points out that among the information obtained by the hacker are data from Brazilian federal police. PF wants to know now how exactly he got this information.
In a statement, PF reported that the hacker is suspected of being responsible for two publications selling data from the institution, on May 22, 2020 and February 22, 2022.
In the statement, PF said the hacker "praised that he was responsible for several cyber intrusions carried out in some countries".
And he said, in these posts on the internet, that he had disclosed sensitive data of 80 thousand members of InfraGard, which is a partnership between the FBI, the federal police, and private entities in the infrastructure sector of that country.
"In the virtual environment, the hacker is known to be a malicious actor responsible for leaking large databases of personal information, including those of companies such as Airbus and the United States Environmental Protection Agency" the PF note continues.
According to PF he must be responsible for the crime of hacking a computer device and, if convicted, he may have a high penalty due to the commercialization of the data obtained in the invasions.
