Canadian pleads guilty to Snowflake cloud data-theft attacks

Canadian pleads guilty to Snowflake cloud data-theft attacks

A Canadian man pleaded guilty today to his role in accessing company accounts at cloud storage provider Snowflake and stealing data from at least 165 organizations in a scheme to extort millions of dollars from victims.

​26-year-old Connor Riley Moucka, also known as Alexander Moucka and Waifu, was arrested on October 30, 2024, for stealing data of hundreds of millions of individuals from companies using Snowflake’s storage service.

Between February and October 2024, Moucka and John Erin Binns, also indicted for these attacks, accessed Snowflake accounts not protected by multi-factor authentication (MFA) using logins stolen via infostealer malware.

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