Post #3567381
2026-07-03 17:49 UTC
In parallel I am writing the most complete account of the life, career & crimes of Dr Joseph Popp Jnr, the man everyone agrees created & executed the first ever software based ransomware attack in 1989. I've found the contradictory and missing details of his life frustrating & am going to fix that.
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@realhackhistory@chaos.social 2026-07-03 18:05
Finally I am going to write about Alexey Ivanov & his partner in crime Vasiliy Gorshkov who were breaching U.S. companies from Russia in 2000, offering "consulting" to victims & threatening to delete data from hacked computers and leak sensitive records. This feels like proto-ransomware methodology.