Mon Dieu! Suspected French ShinyHunters gang member in the dock

A French citizen was scheduled to appear before a US court on Friday on a nine-count indictment related to his alleged involvement in the ShinyHunters cybercrime gang that trafficked in identity and corporate data theft and sometimes extortion. Twenty-one-year-old Sebastien Raoult, aka Sezyo Kaizen, was arrested last year in …

[Khaptain]

Seattle Irony

Since they also hacked Microsoft at one point it's quite ironic that he is now sleeping in the same state.

You does the crime , you does the time.

[Lil Endian]

"Too many bad actors..."

"...know they can illegally access proprietary information..."

I reckon marketing should go to RADA or RSC. All these fekkin bad actors...

[Dizzy Dwarf]

Re: "Too many bad actors..."

https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/26/bofh_2021_episode_21/

[Pascal Monett]

21 years old

Undoubtedly considered himself invulnerable, superior and super smart, looking down on his victims and laughing when the money rolled in.

He can do the time, he's got plenty of it.

[Potemkine!]

First, let's not forget that "the charges contained in the indictment are only allegations. A person is presumed innocent unless and until he or she is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law."

Next, Too many times kids or young adults don't realize what can happen to them IRL. It seemed so easy to them to play nefarious games, they thought they were safe and even they were caught, they never imagined they could spend a very long time if not their whole life in the hell of a US prison.

Maximum publicity should be made around this case, so the next ones think twice before playing the black hat.

[Anonymous Coward]

Suffering from Frenchness

How dare you refer to "Suspected French ShinyHunters Gang"! As Associated Press have pointed out via https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jan/28/ap-issues-clarification-over-its-advice-not-to-use-term-the-french, using a term such as "the French" can "sound dehumanizing and imply a monolith rather than diverse individuals".

The corrected headline is obviously "Suspected ShinyHunters Gang from country of cheese-eating surrender monkeys" FTFY