Dana White: “We helped catch the f**king nerds that hacked UFC.com”
UFC President, Dana White has revealed how he put his neck officially on the chopping block during a period of time earlier this year in an attempt to catch a group of hackers causing chaos throughout the internet, explaining exactly how he goaded those people into personally targeting him before getting the FBI involved.
Speaking via MMAMania.com, Dana said:
“You should have seen the kind of tweets their Twitter followers were sending me. All these mysterious threats, like, ‘We’re watching you’ and ‘We can find you.’ I told them, Come find me, you f—in’ nerds. Here’s my hotel. I’m in Chicago. Come find me. It was a Twitter war for days. And that’s when it gets fun. You get these guys engaged, you get ‘em going, and that’s when you get the FBI involved. Because there’s so much piracy of UFC merchandise, the FBI was already monitoring everything that was happening. But after Anonymous hacked our site, we also got U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of the Department of Homeland Security, involved. And it helps when they know when and where the hackers are going to attack. So I put my chin out there, and we knew they were gonna punch it. Two weeks after they attacked me, a lot of them started getting busted. I think we contributed to that.”
The major contributor to this year’s assault on the UFC was “JoshTheGod” who was arrested just a couple of weeks ago for credit card fraud amongst other things. Real name Mir Islam, the cyber thief is also “accused of helping to operate additional forums, UGNazi.com and Carders.org, both of which were seized by the FBI.” Stay tuned to MMABay for more news on this situation as we get it.
By Michael Pepper. (Follow me on Twitter)
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