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Man Suspected of Hacking Snowflake Customers Arrested in Canada – DataBreaches.Net

Cheerio all, let’s dive straight into a recent spicy digital drama that unfolded on our Canadian counterparts. They have got their hands on a cheeky chappie suspected of having his technical fingers in quite a few digital pies. More specifically, he’s potentially got himself involved with a series of cyber nuisances that affected a flabbergasting number of 165 clients of this tech company, Snowflake Inc. That’s the word doing the rounds, anyway.

So, who’s our potential digital mischief maker at the heart of this story? His name’s Alexander, but he seems to prefer ‘Connor’ Moucka and was popped into custody at the end of October. Our friends in the States asked the Canadians to get involved and, ever the allies, the Canadian justice system said ‘righto, consider it done.’ Now he’s gearing up for his day in front of a judge.

Now you might be wondering, what exactly has he been charged with? Well, that’s the interesting bit, they’re keeping that under wraps for now. You know how governments are; they throw around terms like ‘confidential state-to-state communications’ and that’s that. But, a couple of well-placed sources, who wanted to keep their names out of the limelight, tagged this Moucka lad as the brain behind these Snowflake-related shenanigans.

Our Moucka has been floating around the digital world flitting between the names ‘Judische’ and ‘Waifu’ and it seems that there’s been radio silence from him for a bit. Apparently, he dropped some disturbing hints about expecting the coppers to collar him any day now. He reckoned he’d done quite a tidy job cleaning up his tracks though. He was confident he could cock a snook at any conspiracy charges that might come his way.

However, it’s starting to look like he might’ve been a bit too sure of himself. According to our sources, our digital ‘Waifu’ wasn’t necessarily all that technically savvy. Apparently, anyone with even just a smidge of know-how could have accomplished that Snowflake hack. All it needed was a bit of leaked info with the right privileges to gain access to their databases. Just like cracking open a Kinder egg, really.

To top it all off, according to some who claim to be in the know, Waifu didn’t really exercise much care. He had this tendency to let loose on his own online platforms with a bunch of misinformation and, let’s just say, some questionable content. Anyhow, where this story leads and whether justice will have its day is something we will all have to wait and see. We’ll be keeping our fingers crossed and our tea brewed. We’ll catch you next time!

by Parker Bytes

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