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The Hack-for-Hire Industry: Death by a Thousand Cuts
Reuters has published a report describing how the Indian firm Appin became ground zero for what grew into India's hack-for-hire industry.
Appin launched as an educational start up but pivoted into mercenary hacking and its alumni have spawned a number of copycat hack-for-hire firms. The industry is a scourge that subverts legal and commercial processes, but each individual hack-for-hire incident is difficult to prosecute in a way that deters the companies behind it.
In a report last year Reuters revealed that email providers had provided access to a database of more than 80,000 emails sent by Indian hacking firms. The news agency also uncovered a wealth of additional material. Reuters writes:
This report on Appin draws on thousands of company emails as well as financial records, presentations, photos and instant messages from the firm. Reporters also reviewed case files from American, Norwegian, Dominican and Swiss law enforcement, and interviewed dozens of former Appin employees and hundreds of victims of India-based hackers. Reuters gathered the material — which spans 2005 until earlier this year — from ex-employees, clients and security professionals who’ve...
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