Vinny Troia | |
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| Education | PhD[citation needed] |
| Alma mater | Capella University, Western Governors University[citation needed] |
| Occupation | Cybersecurity researcher[1][2] |
| Website | www.vinnytroia.com |
Vincenzo "Vinny" Troia is an American cybersecurity researcher who is known for reporting on and identifying members of The Dark Overlord hacker group as well as hacker pompompurin, who was the owner-operator of the website BreachForums and was involved in the 2021 FBI email hacking.[3][4] Troia is also known for disclosing the Shanghai police database leak in 2022.[5][6]
- ^ "FBI Email Hoaxer ID'ed by the Guy He Allegedly Loves to Torment". threatpost.com. 16 November 2021.
- ^ "NightLion Worm Takes Revenge on Night Lion Security | Cyware Hacker News". Cyware Labs.
- ^ "FBI system hacked to email 'urgent' warning about fake cyberattacks". www.bleepingcomputer.com.
- ^ "Wait—The FBI Got Hacked Over a Beef With a Guy Named Vinny?". www.thedailybeast.com.
- ^ "China Police Database Was Left Open Online for Over a Year, Enabling Leak". www.wsj.com.
- ^ Gan, Yong Xiong,Hannah Ritchie,Nectar (5 July 2022). "Nearly one billion people in China had their personal data leaked, and it's been online for more than a year". CNN.
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