Dan Mangan and Jessica Golden, CNBC
Federal prosecutors on Thursday announced criminal charges against an 18-year-old Wisconsin man for a scheme to hack and sell access to user accounts of the sports betting site DraftKings.
The man, Joseph Garrison, is accused of working with others to steal about $600,000 from approximately 1,600 victim accounts during the November 2022 attack, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan.
DraftKings is not named in the criminal complaint against Garrison. But a person close to the company said it was a target of the so-called credential stuffing attack. DraftKings later confirmed it.
In a statement to CNBC, DraftKings said: “The safety and security of our customers’ personal and payment information is of paramount importance to DraftKings. We worked with law enforcement in catching the alleged bad actor(s), and we want to thank the Department of Justice, including the FBI and U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York, for their prompt and effective action.”
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