On Wednesday, Connor Riley Moucka was found guilty by a federal court in Seattle of committing computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to commit these offenses involving the unauthorized access and theft of data from Snowflake customers' accounts in 2024 This article explores theft data snowflake. . Moucka, 26, from Kitchener, Ontario, personally earned approximately $495,000 through ransoms and data sales.
He is set to be sentenced on October 27th, facing a mandatory minimum two-year sentence for identity theft and up to 30 years for the remaining charges. Mandiant collaborated with Snowflake in investigating actor UNC5537, which traced every incident back to stolen customer credentials from infostealers.
Mandiant concluded that this campaign was not a result of any particularly advanced tool or technique but rather due to the size of the infostealer market and credentials left unrotated for as long as four years. Since 2024, the 165 figure has evolved from a notification tally to an indicator used by law enforcement to track actual compromises among clients. What was compromised included non-content call history and text messages, payroll data, DEA registration numbers, passport information, and Social Security numbers.
AT&T confirmed in July 2024 that records of calls and texts for nearly all their cellular customers between May 1 and October 31, 2022, were taken from its workspace on a third-party cloud platform.
