Antrim Crown Court hears self-taught computer programmer saw it as a challenge to create a program which could hack into the accounts of Nike
PSNI officers raided Andrew Kelly's house at the end of July 2020, and when his computer and other devices were seized and examined police were able to link them and Kelly to the cyber attacks on Nike A computer hacker who “took about an hour” to create a program which infiltrated the website of Nike Inc in a “credential stuffing” cyber attack avoided going to jail on Friday.
“This was low level and described as probing activity,” said Judge Devlin, adding that at this stage the attack “did not trigger any notable alerts within Nike’s systems”. A fraud assessment found that 277,000 customer accounts had been compromised out of a total of 8.9 credential stuffing attempts, and as a result, “third-party fraudsters were subsequently able to access stored PayPal information”, and with more than 500 attempted fraudulent transactions Nike were swindled out of $108,000. Its remedial work after the credential stuffing stack cost Nike an additional $142,500.
“More detailed evidence as to exactly how his computer was used to attack Nike is no longer available because on May 1st, 2020, his computer had been securely wiped, presumably by the defendant himself,” said Judge Devlin. Those other charges, said the judge, also related to a list of data gleaned by the defendant for potential use in credit stuffing attacks, but while clearly criminal and “demonstrates the defendant’s technical ability, the prosecution also accepts there was no ulterior fraudulent intention and that none of the results had been used for fraudulent purposes”.
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