According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, an 18-year-old man from Wisconsin has been charged for attempting to hack into and steal from thousands of sports betting and daily fantasy sports accounts.
Joseph Garrison, 18, was allegedly part of a gang that stole $600,000 from 1,600 sports betting and fantasy sports accounts. Court documents relating to Garrison’s charges did not mention which sports betting website was accessed during the hack.
18-Year-Old Charged with Hacking into 16,000 Sports Betting AccountsThe charges allege that Garrison used credential stuffing attacks to gain access to the accounts. This is when stolen usernames and passwords from previous data breaches are used to access accounts on other platforms. Court documents show that Garrison hacked into around 60,000 accounts in total.
During a search of his home in February 2023, law enforcement found 700 config files used for hacking on Garrison’s computer. These were related to dozens of corporate websites. They also found files containing nearly 40 million username and password pairs.
18-Year-Old Charged with Hacking into 16,000 Sports Betting Accounts 18-Year-Old Charged with Hacking into 16,000 Sports Betting Accounts 18-Year-Old Charged with Hacking into 16,000 Sports Betting Accounts
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