In this photo illustration, the logo of American daily fantasy sports and sportsbook company DraftKings is displayed on a smartphone screen.
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federal prosecutor Criminal charges were announced Thursday against an 18-year-old Wisconsin man for planning to to crack User Accounts for Sports Betting Sites draft king.
The man, Joseph Garrison, is accused of cooperating in the November 2022 attacks that stole about 600,000 people from about 1,600 victim accounts, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan. Ten thousand U.S. dollars.
DraftKings did not appear in the criminal complaint against Garrison. But a person close to the company confirmed that it was the target of a so-called credential stuffing attack.
Law enforcement raided Garrison’s Wisconsin home on Feb. 23 and recovered his computer and cell phone, the indictment said.
On the devices, investigators found credential stuffers, photos illustrating how stolen user credentials were used to steal money from victim accounts, and messages between Garrison and co-conspirators, the indictment said.
Those messages included Garrison writing, “Fraud is fun… I’m addicted to seeing the money in my account… I love getting around s—,” according to a court filing.
The images cited in the FBI affidavit were hosted on the popular file-sharing website Imgur. CNBC also found the same image on a website that allegedly sold stolen accounts on sites like Draftkings and Fanduel.
– Additional reporting by CNBC Rohan Goswami
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