José Luis Huertas, known as Alcasec, is in the center of one of the greatest cybersecurity scandals in Spain. This young hacker, just 21 years old, would have leaked sensitive data of 130,000 national police officers to two dangerous criminal organizations, according to The world: The Miami and Child Skin clans.
The compromised information includes names, homes, plate numbers and even operational details of key police units such as the UDEF and the UDYCO. Taking into account the virality of this person in our country, the questions have not taken to leave: how did you get access to such critical data? To what extent all this?
Contextualizing a little, commenting that it all started in 2022, when serious vulnerability was detected in the SIGSOL database, which stores personal and professional information from the agents.
According to the investigations of the Cyber -Care Unit of the General Information Police Station (CGI), Alcasec would have exploited this gap to extract millions of records and sell them to third parties. The intercepted chats between the hacker and the drug traffickers show how they asked for specific information about the police officers in charge of investigating them.
Having only this as a base, There is no doubt that what happened worries a lot. The leaked data range from professional card numbers to private addresses and emails. Information about agents assigned to sensitive units such as foreign, citizen security and internal issues has even been compromised.
As for the clans mentioned above, the truth is that ‘Miami’ and ‘Skin’ child do not walk nonsense, and are well known for their violence and attacks, and it is known that they would have used this information to press the agents who investigated their illegal activities.
Police sources indicate that drug traffickers could have used these data to extort officials or even to identify patterns that would allow them directly intimidating some people.
Specifically, Filtration mainly affects the police units responsible for combating organized crime as:
- UDYCO: Specialized in drug trafficking.
- UDEF: Financing on financial crimes.
- Udev: responsible for investigating violent crimes.
Add that these units usually work with a high level of confidentiality due to the risk that their agents live every day. However, with its exposed data, the situation is quite complex and even scares.
Who is Alcasec? The hacker who has just sow a real chaos
José Luis Huertas is certainly someone new in all this cybercrime. With just 15 years, he started hacking simple systems such as Bicimad and Burger King. But little by little it grew at the level of capacities, even being infiltrated in more complex bases such as those of the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) and the judicial neutral point. In the latter case, he stole sensitive data of more than half a million Spanish citizens.
In previous interviews, Alcasec has presumed to know 90% of Spaniard’s personal data thanks to their skills to cross information between different bases.
Rizo the curl, even founded a cybersecurity company called Havevenio, where he tried to appear as a reinserted hacker. However, current investigations show that it continued to operate with illegal bases such as ‘UDYAT’, used to obtain details about the family environment of the agents.
What happened now scale to new and dangerous levels and the most recent detention of hacker has occurred after its direct connection with the aforementioned clans was discovered. According to judicial sources, This young man would have generated income higher than a million euros selling sensitive information through channels like Telegram.
As for everything that follows now, the 50th Court of Madrid currently carries the instruction of the case against it. The tests include intercepted encrypted chats between the hacker and members of the ‘Skin’ clan.
Although it faces all kinds of charges for theft and illegal sale of data, its criminal history could further complicate their situation. For minor hackeos to huge infiltrations in systems of entire countries, of course its situation looks quite ugly in the face of a future or even long term.
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