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DOJ charges hacker for 2021 Texas GOP website defacement

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STIX ID: report--4c9f74bc-3bc6-5315-bc7f-d11ab0dc8c7d

Feed Name: CyberScoop

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2025-03-31

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

Author: djohnson

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The DOJ unsealed charges against Aubrey Cottle (aka “Kirtaner”) for a 2021 incident in which the Texas GOP website was defaced and about 180 GB of data stolen from Epik was publicly released; investigators tied Cottle to the theft via a BitTorrent download IP, social media posts, Discord logs, and seizure of storage devices containing stolen customer data and exploit-related artifacts.

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