Snowflake extortionist admits 165-victim cloud crime spree – and squeezing one target twice

A Canadian who helped orchestrate the sprawling Snowflake-linked data theft campaign has pleaded guilty in the US, admitting that he and his co-conspirators returned to squeeze at least one victim a second time. Connor Riley Moucka, 26, of Kitchener, Ontario, admitted computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy charges over a hacking spree that compromised more than 165 organizations, exposed billions of customer records, and brought in about $2.5 million in ransom payments. According to the US Department of Justice, Moucka and his co-conspirators used stolen login credentials to break into the cloud environments of at least 165 customers of a US software provider between February and October 2024. The DOJ still...

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