IT Guy gets back at a hacker by hacking them back, beating them at their own game: 'I took every single online account he had'

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Nov 3, 2024 12:00 PM EST

Sometimes, you have to fight fire with fire—there's no other way of dealing with the issue. Specifically, when dealing with hackers, the only way to counter them is to apply the same techniques they're using against you and go on the offensive. Or, at least, that's what cool stories like this would lend you to believe, I've never been in a cyber war with a hacker, so don't take my word for it. It sounds cool, at least, and who doesn't love the trope-y ideal of going toe-to-toe with a hacker—typing furiously on a keyboard that's not in.

The reality is that for most of us, cybersecurity won't ever experience this cinematic hacker experience and instead will be relegated to the boring life of upkeeping our passwords when they've been compromised and the pain of checking our phone for that text message code of our two-factor authentication, all while trying not to click on the suspiciously "phishy" links that end up in our emails. 

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    Revenge on a hacker One day I get an email from a hosting provider telling me that attacks are being launched from our server and I need to look into it. I find that there is indeed a hacker in our server. He was using an app to anonymously control his bot network, among other things.
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    I looked at the app he was using, and discovered that it was an opensource project. I then downloaded the code for this backdoor, modified it to log everything to a file, and replaced his app with my honeypot version.
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    Over the next six months I collected every scrap of information I could on this guy. I then used that information to take over many of his online accounts, including his main email account. That was the account where he had registered all of his services to, so I was able to issue password reset requests for everything he owned. I gained control of six other email accounts,
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    two dozen IRC accounts, his facebook page, his dating profile, numerous websites, and the backup site he used for his cell phone. I have his phone number, his moms number, and his girlfriends number. I know his address, his birthday, the schools he went to, even his favorite foods and music.
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    After I took every single online account he had ever had away from him, I sent a nasty email to his ISP in an effort to extort yet more information from them. In that email I said some very unkind things about the monarch of Indonesia and how I might smear the monarch publicly if I didn't get the information.
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    The hacker dispeared immediatly after that. I have looked for him at times over the last fifteen years since and he has not resurfaced. The Indonesian lèse-majesté laws regarding insults to the monarchy are not to be trifled with. The prison term for such an offense is 15 years.
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    jake753 OP got "called out" and is actively providing evidence. Finally something not made up.
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    DavesPla... OP I did in fact use the wrong words to describe the Indonesian law. Indonesia has a president, and there are severe penalties for defaming him. I do know for certain this hacker has not resurfaced yet, though I cannot prove this was the cause.
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    The current Indonesian criminal code (KUHP) (to be repealed in 2 January 2026) criminalizes defamation of the president and vice president of Indonesia, inherited directly from similar laws in the Netherlands. This was then inherited by the new KUHP to commence in 2 January 2026, with threats of imprisonment from 18 to 54 months or a fine from Rp10 million to Rp200 million.[82]
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    DavesPla... OP Just saying, if you used Google to do an exact (quoted) search for "pi -ant little script kiddie" you might find a wordpress site to enjoy. Trying to avoid violating the subs rules on doxing.
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    Inconmon Definitely nuclear. Can't argue with that.
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    donutmesswi... dude, looked through the , you are a Chad, please don't hurt me. Do you think he just got off the internet completely or actually went to jail.
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    Angry McMur... My dude has receipts. Love it.
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    Chalice_Man... OP be like: "I HAVE YOUR IP, YOUR HOME ADRESS TOO. YOUR GOVERNMENT FILES SAY A LOT ABOUT YOU"
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