11-20-2020, 01:36 PM
HACK-T OF GOD
Televangelist Kenneth Copeland who mocked Biden victory with maniacal fake laugh ‘hit by Russian hackersâ€
MILLIONAIRE televangelist Kenneth Copeland has allegedly been hit by hackers who are threatening to release 1.2 terabytes of data about his business.
Copeland - who went viral over his maniacal fake laugh at Joe Biden's election win - has become the latest high profile figure targeted by ransomware gang REvil, according to a post on the gangâ€s dark web site.
Russian hacking group REvil published on their dark web headquarters, Happy Blog, that they had accessed Copeland's firm and presented a string of screenshots as alleged evidence.
The gang has previously threatened to auction off data allegedly stolen from pop star Madonna, released legal documents relating to Lady Gaga, and tried to extort Donald Trump.
The group uses ransomware - a type of software often unknowingly installed by the victim - to break into a networks and encrypt them.
FBI agents are said to have described the gang as "cyber terrorists", to which the group angrily responded in a blog post, moaning "your position is your choice".
Copeland, 83, who has an estimated net worth of $760million, based in Texas, heads up Kenneth Copeland Ministries (KCM) and is one of the world's wealthiest pastors.
He has risen to notoriety in 2020 after a string of bizarre claims about the coronavirus pandemic.
Hackers claim they managed to get inside KCM's systems and steal more than 1.2tb of data, the equivalent of around 120,000 storage boxes of files.
Screenshots show banks of alleged computer files with labels such as "budgets", "projects", "payroll" and "inventory".
Writing in broken English, hackers threaten the data "will soon be made public".
https://www.the-sun.com/news/1824273/ken...den-laugh/
Televangelist Kenneth Copeland who mocked Biden victory with maniacal fake laugh ‘hit by Russian hackersâ€
MILLIONAIRE televangelist Kenneth Copeland has allegedly been hit by hackers who are threatening to release 1.2 terabytes of data about his business.
Copeland - who went viral over his maniacal fake laugh at Joe Biden's election win - has become the latest high profile figure targeted by ransomware gang REvil, according to a post on the gangâ€s dark web site.
Russian hacking group REvil published on their dark web headquarters, Happy Blog, that they had accessed Copeland's firm and presented a string of screenshots as alleged evidence.
The gang has previously threatened to auction off data allegedly stolen from pop star Madonna, released legal documents relating to Lady Gaga, and tried to extort Donald Trump.
The group uses ransomware - a type of software often unknowingly installed by the victim - to break into a networks and encrypt them.
FBI agents are said to have described the gang as "cyber terrorists", to which the group angrily responded in a blog post, moaning "your position is your choice".
Copeland, 83, who has an estimated net worth of $760million, based in Texas, heads up Kenneth Copeland Ministries (KCM) and is one of the world's wealthiest pastors.
He has risen to notoriety in 2020 after a string of bizarre claims about the coronavirus pandemic.
Hackers claim they managed to get inside KCM's systems and steal more than 1.2tb of data, the equivalent of around 120,000 storage boxes of files.
Screenshots show banks of alleged computer files with labels such as "budgets", "projects", "payroll" and "inventory".
Writing in broken English, hackers threaten the data "will soon be made public".
https://www.the-sun.com/news/1824273/ken...den-laugh/