In pursuit of victims’ personal information, Singh and Ceraolo unlawfully used a police officer’s stolen password to access a restricted database maintained by a federal law enforcement agency that contains (among other data) detailed, nonpublic records of narcotics and currency seizures, as well as law enforcement intelligence reports. Ceraolo (with Singh’s knowledge) also accessed without authorization the email account of a foreign law enforcement officer, and used it to defraud social media companies by making purported emergency requests for information about the companies’ users.
https://www.databreaches.net/two-men-charged-for-breaching-federal-law-enforcement-database-and-posing-as-police-officers-to-defraud-social-media-companies/
This definitely sounds like a future eCrimesBytes episode in the making:
I made this into an eCrimeBytes Nibble:
Pair Charged For Impersonating Police Officers To Extort Victims – eCrimeBytes Nibble #7
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