Brazil's Federal Police Arrests ‘USDoD,’ Hacker in FBI Infragard Breach

Brazil’s Polícia Federal arrested USDoD, an infamous hacker linked to the National Public Data and InfraGard breaches, as part of “Operation Data Breach”. USDoD, dubbed EquationCorp, has a long history of high-profile data breaches in which he stole data and often posted it on hacking forums, mocking the victims.

These breaches include those on the FBI’s InfraGard, a threat intelligence sharing platform, and National Public Data, which exposed the private data and social security numbers of hundreds of millions of US citizens online.

Things became worse for the threat actor when he targeted cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike and revealed the company’s internal threat actor list. Soon after leaking the IOC list, Brazilian publisher Techmundo received an anonymous CrowdStrike report that reportedly identified, or doxed, the threat actor, figuring out the perpetrator as a 33-year-old Brazilian called Luan BG.

Interestingly, USDoD verified that CrowdStrike’s information was accurate in an interview with HackRead and stated that he was currently living in Brazil. “So congrats to Crowdstrike for doxing me, they are late for the party, intel421

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