Ohio Hacker Charged With Utah Police Website Attacks

By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Mon Apr 16, 2012 at 09:37:55 PM EST
Tags: Anonymous (all tags)

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John Anthony Borell III of Toledo, Ohio, aka "ItsKahuna", age 21, who allegedly is part of CabinCr3w and affiliated with Anonymous, appeared in federal court in Salt Lake City today. He's been charged with computer intrusion for hacking into the Utah Police website and accessing its database. The Affidavit for the criminal Complaint, available here, says:

CabinCr3w is a defined group of individuals, two of whom use the Twitter accounts @ItsKahuna and @Anonwormer, who associate and conspire to differing levels to hack computer systems. CabinCr3w specifically targets law enforcement agencies, non-governmental organizations associated with law enforcement; and the personal lives of those who work in law enforcement related fields. While CabinCr3w is a distinct and definable group of individuals, their activities are justified by the concept of Anonymous,-and their activities are ascribed thereto.

The FBI identified Borell through his Twitter posts and messages, Facebook page, online chats and pastebin postings. The Complaint alleges he admitted on Twitter and in chats that he was responsible for the Utah hacks. [More...]

What the Twitter search warrant obtained:

On March 2,2012, Twitter provided information for the above accounts pursuant to the search warrant. Included in the search warrant return was information related to 1P addresses used by the accounts, all Twitter messages sent using the accounts, direct messages sent to and from the accounts, and basic user information for the accounts, such as the email address that created the account.

After that, a grand jury subpoena was issued to Buckeye Televisions:

a grand jury subpoena was sent to Buckeye Telesystems for several IP addresses found in the Twitter search warrant return related to ItsKahuna:

The complaint refers to two lawyers in Toledo with the name John Anthony Borell. One appears to bJohn Anthony Borel, Sr. and the other John Anothony Borel, Jr. Presumably, one is his father and the other his grandfather. John Anthony Borell, Sr. is the deputy chief of the civil division of the Lucase County Prosecutor's office. John Anthony Borell, Jr., whom I assume is his father, is in private practice.

In one of the intercepted chats, Borell III talks about the advice his l