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Real Identity Revealed: The Ha...An US-based cyber security firm named Recorded Future has finally uncovered the real identity of Tessa88, the hacker who is behind some of the most high-profile cyber-attacks and mega breaches. According to the firm, the real name of Tessa88 is Maksim Vladimirovich Donakov and is a resident of Penza, Russian Federation.
In 2016, the 29-year old hacker was selling stolen databases of some of the world’s biggest social media platform which includes LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, and Dropbox. The data got stolen years back and it was about half a billion username and password combinations. However, Tessa88 is not the one who stole the data.
Recorded Future's Insikt Group investigated the case using some of their data, dark web activity, chats and email accounts associated with Tessa88. Researchers have also found some YouTube videos, Imgur images and three profiles on the Russian social network service for classmates. And with all these evidence, Insikt Group has confirmed with thehighest level confidence that Maksim Vladimirovich Donakov is the man behind that nasty database sale.
The United States prosecutors have already arrested and extradited Yevgeniy Nikulin, another Russian hacker accused of hacking two of the databases that Donakov was selling.