Jack Recider

Do you ever think like, you know, we can make some money off this?

Do you ever think like, you know, we can make some money off this?

Huh. This is a tricky situation to navigate for a teenager. Like, what do you do when your partner in crime starts doing things you don't approve of? Together, you made a map of all the buried treasures, all the shared links and logins and passwords and ghost logins, terabytes of downloaded data and a whole system of techniques and piles of data to sift through to find more.

Huh. This is a tricky situation to navigate for a teenager. Like, what do you do when your partner in crime starts doing things you don't approve of? Together, you made a map of all the buried treasures, all the shared links and logins and passwords and ghost logins, terabytes of downloaded data and a whole system of techniques and piles of data to sift through to find more.

And suddenly, both of them are now highly suspicious of each other? Now that it was known that Spintire was selling this stuff, Spintire offered them a cut of the money to keep things quiet and stuff.

And suddenly, both of them are now highly suspicious of each other? Now that it was known that Spintire was selling this stuff, Spintire offered them a cut of the money to keep things quiet and stuff.

Shane was the moderator and admin of the Extril subreddit. Professor Dubstep was like, listen, these leaks that have been happening lately, I know where they're coming from. Spintire is selling it and I don't want more to leak out. So here are the other things that might leak.

Shane was the moderator and admin of the Extril subreddit. Professor Dubstep was like, listen, these leaks that have been happening lately, I know where they're coming from. Spintire is selling it and I don't want more to leak out. So here are the other things that might leak.

Arnie was another guy very tuned in to the unreleased music scene, and he was a whiz with all these online services and how their security can be exploited, which could be really handy to break into more shared drives and stuff. And Shane had seen that Dyno wasn't trustworthy, so they stopped working together. So the new crew is Professor Dubstep, Shane, and Arnie. Spintire and Dyno were out.

Arnie was another guy very tuned in to the unreleased music scene, and he was a whiz with all these online services and how their security can be exploited, which could be really handy to break into more shared drives and stuff. And Shane had seen that Dyno wasn't trustworthy, so they stopped working together. So the new crew is Professor Dubstep, Shane, and Arnie. Spintire and Dyno were out.

And not only that, but they all agreed that Spintire needs to be stopped. So they put filters in place on the subreddit to keep certain tracks from getting posted. But they also started going through the ghost logins and shared links that Spintire had to lock him out. They were changing passwords and disabling shared links.

And not only that, but they all agreed that Spintire needs to be stopped. So they put filters in place on the subreddit to keep certain tracks from getting posted. But they also started going through the ghost logins and shared links that Spintire had to lock him out. They were changing passwords and disabling shared links.

It's kind of funny that this teenage crew knew exactly the steps to take to keep hackers out, yet the music labels themselves either didn't know or didn't want to stop these kids.

It's kind of funny that this teenage crew knew exactly the steps to take to keep hackers out, yet the music labels themselves either didn't know or didn't want to stop these kids.

Like to be sitting in, what, history class? Just thinking in the back of the class what stuff Spintire might steal next. And then to rush home and change more passwords to try to lock them out. But then when you're in there cleaning things up, you're reminded, oh yeah, this is the account with all those banking details for this major musician who's a millionaire. Ah, that's funny.

Like to be sitting in, what, history class? Just thinking in the back of the class what stuff Spintire might steal next. And then to rush home and change more passwords to try to lock them out. But then when you're in there cleaning things up, you're reminded, oh yeah, this is the account with all those banking details for this major musician who's a millionaire. Ah, that's funny.

Once they were slowing down spin tire and locking them out the best they could, it was time to start looking for new treasure troves.

Once they were slowing down spin tire and locking them out the best they could, it was time to start looking for new treasure troves.

Their standard system was to find a musician's email address, search for that email address in the breach databases, get the hash, crack the hash, then use that on a whole bunch of sites that musicians might use and hope they might be reusing passwords.

Their standard system was to find a musician's email address, search for that email address in the breach databases, get the hash, crack the hash, then use that on a whole bunch of sites that musicians might use and hope they might be reusing passwords.