Vinny Troia

Vinny Troia

Vincenzo Troia is an American ethical hacker and cybersecurity researcher who is known for reporting and identifying the Dark Overlord (hacker group) and hacker PomPompurin, who was involved in the 2021 FBI email hacking. He is also known for discovering the Shanghai police database leak in 2022.Vinny also serves as CEO and principal security researcher at Night Lion Security, a cyber-security firm based in the US and founded a threat intelligence firm named Shadowbyte.In 2018, he found a data leak of nearly 340 million detailed records about individual people available on a publicly accessible server of Exactis.In 2019, he found a data breach in People Data Labs where records of personal data, including email addresses, employers, locations, job titles, names, phone numbers and social media profiles of 1.2 billion people were exposed.In 2020, Troia identified and wrote a report on an entire underground cybercrime economy built on the stealing of reselling of video game passwords. The white paper published by Troia and Night Lion Security outline the process by which hackers make money by stealing and reselling Fortnite video game skins, some making nearly a million dollars per year. After gaining access to a victim's account, most often by using common or reused passwords, the account's contents are then stolen and resold on an underground black market valued at nearly 1 Billion dollars annually.

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