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PayPal sent FBI list that led to Anonymous raids


By Athima Chansanchai
In cooperation with the FBI, PayPal sent them a list of about 1,000 IP addresses that carried malicious code during Anonymous' attacks on it last year, which helped agents target specific people in recent raids that led to 16 arrests.

An affidavit filed by Special Agent Chris Thompson reveals that PayPal worked closely with the feds to nail down those responsible for the attacks on it, from the time the attacks started to about a week later, when PayPal found warnings about the FBI sweeps circulating amongst participants in the attacks.

As early as December, FBI agents had been in contact with Dave Weisman, PayPal's senior manager of its Electronic Crimes and Threat Intelligence Unit. They shared a conference call two days after PayPal was hit with a distributed denial of service (DDos) attack in retaliation for suspending donations to WikiLeaks through its PayPal account. PayPal reported several attacks to the FBI that occurred between Dec. 6 and 10.

On Dec.15, PayPal provided agents with a thumb drive that contained "logs and report detailing information regarding approximately 1,000 IP addresses that sent malicious network packets to PayPal during the DDoS attacks."

The 1,000 IP addresses were derived from logs created by a PayPal-owned Radware device that records the attackers' IP addresses and the malicious signature it's programmed to recognize. According to the affidavit, a senior security engineer at eBay identified the specific set of strings being used in the attacks, and found only half a dozen variations, leading investigators to be able to pinpoint the patterns of the infiltration.

The IP addresses captured by PayPal were able to be linked to specific premises through subpoenas served upon AT&T and other Internet Service Providers. One of the 1,000 IP addresses given to the FBI by PayPal sent more than 3,600 "malicious network packets" to PayPal between Dec. 8 and 9. A federal grand jury subpoena was served on AT&T on Jan. 6, which AT&T complied with a response on Jan. 18, which led to Valori S. Reid and Peter B. Reid, and their 19-year-old son Ethan, in Arlington, Texas.

The Reids weren't arrested, but their home was the site of one of 35 search warrants executed by the FBI in relation to the Anonymous investigation.

NBC reported: "Agents arrived at the house at about 6 a.m., and a neighbor said they stayed for three hours. They seized two laptops, two desktop computers, an external hard drive, several thumb drives, an iPod Touch and at least one cellphone."

The Department of Justice press release on the raids and arrests that took place in 11 states exposed the extent of the federal web that was dropped over the alleged hacktivists who were part of "Operation Avenge Assange." The release said, "The defendants are charged with various counts of conspiracy and intentional damage to a protected computer."



I've deleted my pay pal account already.:co ol:

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Roach

most people I buy from know me @ ebay and will take my personal checks anyway, so I figure, why leave my personal shit on an unsecure server.

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Rubix

too bad ebay had to monopolize their transaction processing system by not allowing anything else besides paypal

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Jester4yall

^contact the seller if reputable

Officialy on the Fuck paypig bandwagon

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profit

btw on twitter this is old news. ok ill stfu about it now.

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Roach

^ That's probably where the feds will go next.


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Jester4yall

Bogus! I don't do myspace or facebook but I like Twatter. I'm starting to regret following Steve Martin now. I don't want that in my permanent file.

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Grieves

well this doesn't affect me in the slightest...

never used ebay, never had paypal...

i will continue with using neither...

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Roach

It wasn't me...

Water cooler talk led Pittsburgh police to discover that at least 29 city employees -- including some police employees -- were victims of identity theft, apparently through bad PayPal accounts.

"Several city employees were talking amongst each other," Sgt. Michael Del Cimmuto said. "One made mention that they were a recent victim of identity theft. The other one commented that they, too, were a victim of identity theft -- at which point we circulated information and requested that everyone check their accounts and see if they were also victims."

The employees said they got bills for PayPal purchases that they never made, with transaction amounts ranging from $40 to $3,000.

Account numbers were established using employees' names, addresses and partial Social Security numbers, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report.

Del Cimmuto said the victims include people who work in the Department of Public Safety, and police spokeswoman Diane Richard confirmed that police are among those affected public safety employees.

Police sent emails to Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and city department heads to make them aware of the situation and have employees check their credit reports.
City Information Systems Director Howard Stern told Channel 4 Action News Bob Mayo that the city's computer systems are secure.

The police bureau's Computer Crimes Unit is investigating the case.

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Jester4yall

Just what a guilty person would say. Com'on man

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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed. - Larry Flynt