Ben Brundage

You know what I mean?

Like it's somebody probably around my age or younger.

And so I was like, okay, I'll just be unserious here and see kind of where it goes.

And so I sent this cat GIF, which was like, you know, this cat essentially with a tuxedo on, you know, looking super professional.

And like, that was my way of saying that, you know, like, I'm not really that professional, right?

He was able to obtain all these compromised devices using an unknown method, right?

And like these things stood out to me at the time because it was like, huh, I wonder what's actually going on here.

The hacker also told them that the operation was huge.

He told me that they were spending like $30,000 a month on infrastructure.

Like, that was an insane amount of money.

He also told me, he's like, this isn't some rinky-dink operation, right?

And there was another comment which was like, don't investigate us, essentially, right?

And I think all three of those comments were like, okay, that's kind of...

You know, suspicious, something way bigger is going on here.

You know, to me, it was like this crazy feeling because, you know, I'm just some college kid that, like, had found this by accident.

But then it's like, oh, you know, it's actually contributing to something bigger was like this really rewarding feeling.

I was definitely trying to figure out how everything was being done, right?

Like they claim they had this novel exploit.

How were they actually achieving it, right?

And so I was trying to like figure out these kind of loose strands and, you know, unravel the mystery, I guess.