So I think this is the same guy that hacked Parler, GiveSendGo, and Jim Watkins email logs??? Blast from the past if true...
"Cottle has been charged for allegedly stealing data from the Texas GOP's web server in 2021. He faces charges for unlawfully transferring, possessing, or using a means of identification with the intent to commit, or aid or abet, or in connection with, unlawful activity under state or federal law.
If convicted, Cottle faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison in the United States, and could also face additional charges in Canada."
IF which I believe it is, this is the same guy.. You may remember him from his previous hacks... Cottle has been involved in several high-profile incidents
In November 2020, Cottle was responsible for exploiting security flaws in Parler, a social networking service popular with the right wing, to spoof posts to appear as though they were from a verified account belonging to Ron Watkins. In the posts, Watkins appeared to expose his father, Jim Watkins, as "Q", the anonymous poster at the center of the QAnon conspiracy theory. Around this time, Cottle exposed Parler user data by exploiting a flaw in a third-party vendor, which granted him access to Parler's email newsletter database.
January 2021, he exposed email logs from a company called Is It Wet Yet, which belongs to Jim Watkins and serves as the parent company for 8chan, an imageboard described as the "home" of QAnon.
February 2022, he claimed responsibility for a hack on the Christian crowdfunding website GiveSendGo, which was hosting a fundraiser for the Canada convoy protest, and released donors' names, personal information, and donation amounts for all the campaigns on the website.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtx/pr/united-states-unseals-charges-theft-texas-republican-party-data
didn't Dan Bongino invest heavily in the creation of Parler? or maybe even a co-owner?
Seems like I remember that. And I remember the Is It Wet Yet thing
Yes
Let's see if he can hack his way out of a prison cell.
Great find Op. thx for shraring.
If memory serves correctly, he did indeed help form Anonymous (the Guy Fawkes mask hacker group) and in recent years worked for whatever Canada's intel agency is called. He doxxed the people donating to truck drivers during the Canadian trucker protests, which got them de-banked and shut down the protest. https://thegrayzone.com/2022/02/18/hacking-canadian-trucker-convoy-us-canadian-intelligence-operation/
This article goes deep into the history of "Anonymous" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/08/hacker-group-anonymous-returns/615058/
To me it would appear that this guy and his comrades were flipped into intel agency assets some time in the late 2000s and have been instrumental in fueling deepstate agendas by making them more viral online (read the Atlantic article). Non-state actors don't get away with the types of hacks they pulled off, at least not for 20 years. Looks like his protection has finally been removed?
I always cringe when I see a retard post a Guy Fawkes mask. Maybe now I'll see less of them
Good riddance https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WyP3V-9qf8g
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K2r0u6Y_-y0
Yup, archived link to The Atlantic article Aug 2020 here: https://archive.is/Q7SDH
I found the Daily Dot article after the opening post... here: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/aubrey-kirtaner-cottle-arrested-texas-gop-anonymous/
Kiwi Farms has a 50 plus page thread on him here: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/kirtaner-aubrey-cottle.84714/page-3#post-8532194
o7 tx
Wire fraud?