Dylan USES password reuse
Dylan tested credentials from a database dump against other services and found reused passwords.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Dylan EP 45 Details
“Let’s see if they reuse passwords.”
Person
person:dylan
Also: Dae
Australian teenager involved in Xbox hacking and unauthorized access to game-company networks.
Australian teenager involved in Xbox hacking and unauthorized access to game-company networks.
“Dylan was young. In 2010, Dylan was only 14 years old.”
Australian member of XBox Underground who participated in hacking game companies and Microsoft-related systems.
“Then there’s Dylan, who’s just hacking into everything he can”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | USES | password reuse | Explicit | 45 |
| outgoing | USES | credential dumping | Explicit | 45 |
| outgoing | USES | network pivoting | Explicit | 45 |
| outgoing | USES | SMB | Explicit | 45 |
| outgoing | USES | VMware | Explicit | 45 |
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | Xbox Underground | Derived | 45 |
| outgoing | USES | eBay | Explicit | 46 |
| outgoing | DISCOVERED_BY | Epic Games | Explicit | 46 |
Dylan USES password reuse
Dylan tested credentials from a database dump against other services and found reused passwords.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Dylan EP 45 Details
“Let’s see if they reuse passwords.”
Dylan USES credential dumping
Dylan used a database dump containing usernames, email addresses, and plaintext passwords.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Dylan EP 45 Details
“One day he gave me this list”
“usernames, e-mails, and plain text passwords”
Dylan USES network pivoting
Dylan pivoted from compromised systems to other servers and machines inside Epic's network.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Sanad Nesheiwat EP 45 Details
“I was just pivoting to different servers”
Dylan accessed a machine through an open SMB service to find additional credentials.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Dylan EP 45 Details
“I stumbled across one machine which had an SMB open.”
Dylan encountered Epic's virtualized infrastructure running on VMware and ESX.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Dylan EP 45 Details
“they had a ESX kind of host, so they were VMware for everything”
Dylan MEMBER_OF Xbox Underground
Dylan was one of the participants in the group later referred to by the media as Xbox Underground.
Derived Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 45 Details
“this group didn’t really have a name that they called themselves, but the media would later refer to this group as the Xbox Underground”
Dylan used eBay to list photographs of a purported Durango rather than building a second unit.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Dylan EP 46 Details
“I might as well put it on eBay and see what attention I can get from it”
Dylan DISCOVERED_BY Epic Games
Dylan disclosed to Epic Games that he was the person who had hacked them.
Explicit Direction flagged Confidence 99% · Dylan EP 46 Details
“I’m the guy who hacked you”