Odido (T-Mobile Netherlands)

Otherwise, we will publish all the data that we have stolen.

If you had taken a Venn diagram of customers of Flink and Odido, then I think there were so many people who had their private information already leaked that they thought, well, They just didn't care?

No, they just didn't care.

And also, I didn't actually get an email from this hacker collective, so they didn't blackmail me.

Pepijn van der Es was sentenced to four years in prison in 2023 for extortion, money laundering and hacking companies.

He is believed to have been released from prison at the beginning of this year and was reportedly working as the head of online security at a cyber security company.

The suspect came to the attention of police during an investigation into the collective, Shiny Hunters, and this group is believed to be behind several major cyber attacks and became particularly notorious in the Netherlands following the large-scale hack of telecom provider Odido, which we have already referred to earlier in the podcast.

Yes.

Sure, it'll send you to people, but what'll happen is they'll figure out how this particular Dutch person was located, identified, and they will come up with methodologies to shield themselves from it happening to them.

So, I mean, it does say Dutch police clarified Tuesday the arrest suspect was not detained as part of the investigation, was not detained as part of the investigation in the breach of Dutch telecom provider Odido, so it must have been something else.

But, I mean, again, I understand what the FBI assistant director is trying to do, and nobody turned themselves in.

Hopefully we don't spend a lot of time talking this, but okay.

Van der Stop, who used the handle Umbreon, was convicted back in twenty twenty-three for data theft and extortion, released in December of twenty twenty-five, and has since described himself as reformed while working in offensive security.

Investigators are examining Shiny Hunters' breach of Dutch telecom provider Odido, where a Dutch-speaking caller tricked an employee and helped steal data on more than six point two million people.

Krebs reports the arrest happened around September sixteenth.

Shiny Hunters has escalated with attacks against the FBI's job site and the Cl0p ransomware gang.