Andrew Otto Boggs, a.k.a. “Incursio”, 22, and Justin Gray Liverman, a.k.a. “D3f4ult”, 24, were both arrested September 8 in North Carolina as part of a joint operation involving the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Secret Service, according to the Justice Department.
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According to prosecutors, at least three other suspected members located in the United Kingdom are under investigation by that country’s Crown Prosecution Service.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it has arrested Andrew “INCURSIO” Boggs and Justin “D3F4ULT” Liverman for allegedly using social engineering to steal information from U.S. government officials and systems. The officials are not identified in a 37-page affidavit.
In February, Britain’s South East Regional Organized Crime Unit confirmed a CNN report that they had arrested a 16 year-old on computer charges, and USA officials told news organizations the arrest was connected to the “Crackas with Attitude” social-engineering hacks.
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The two men, from North Carolina, join a British teenager in facing charges related to the doxxing attacks, achieved through social engineering by a group calling itself “Crackas with Attitude”.
The FBI says the hacker group also released the names, phone numbers and emails of more than 29,000 FBI and Department of Homeland Security employees. He said he then used that information to pose as Brennan in a call to AOL in which he requested a reset of the Central Intelligence Agency chief’s online password.
Boggs allegedly asked Cracka later that day if he wanted “to join TeamInncuous”, adding: “We’ll only be hitting governments and security firms”.
A report on Ars Technica said that the group’s victims included CIA director John Brennan and National Intelligence director James Clapper.
The group is accused of hacking into U.S. Justice Department computer systems and carrying out what is known as “phonebombing”-blitzing a person with multiple harassing calls and text messages”.
They’re scheduled to make their initial appearance next week in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Once the CWA members had control of accounts, they would access information stored within and post it on social media and internet forums to harass people, police allege.
