- Kansas Man Hacked Health Club, non -profit organization and former employer to promote their services
- Responsibility was affirmed and offered corrective support
- I could face up to five years in prison and more
A man from Kansas declares himself guilty of hacking multiple organizations only to promote his own cybersecurity services.
Nicholas Michael Kloster, a 32 -year -old player from Kansas City, was accused in 2024 for violating three organizations, including a health club and a non -profit organization of Missouri.
During the incident, Kloster sent an email to the business owners claiming the responsibility of the attacks and offering consulting services to avoid future cyber attacks, and his destination will soon be determined.
Cyberattacker admits promoting its own consulting services
In one case, Kloster accessed the systems of a gym violating a restricted area. He manipulated the system to eliminate his own photo of the member database before reducing his monthly membership rate to $ 1. Then he explained to the business owner that he had overlooked the login credentials for security cameras and agreed to the router configuration.
In a separate incident, Kloster used a starter disk to avoid authentication in the systems of a non -profit organization, steal confidential data, install a VPN and change users’ passwords.
A press release from the United States Prosecutor’s Office of the West District of Missouri explains that “the company has suffered significant losses in an attempt to remedy the effects of this intrusion.”
In addition, it is said that Kloster has stolen credit card data from an old employer to buy piracy tools (including a thumb unit announced as a tool to hack vulnerable computers) after being fired from the company in April 2024.
The lawyer’s office explained that Kloster’s shares deserve it up to five years in prison in a federal prison without probation, a fine of up to $ 250,000, up to three years of supervised release and a restitution order. A jury will decide the exact consequences it will face, but FBI’s participation suggests that Kloster could face some quite serious punishments.
