Joshua Samuel Aaron
Cyber Intelligence Report by “Soufiane Jihadi”
March 6, 2016
Executive Summary
On June 2, 2015 Joshua Samuel Aaron was charged with one of the largest cyber hacking schemes ever uncovered. The charges involve cyber intrusions over several years targeting 12 different companies, 7 financial institution, 2 financial news publications, 2 software development firms, and a market risk intelligence company. Joshua Samuel Aaron allegedly stole personal information from over 100 million customers of which 83 million of those customers came from one banking institution, the single largest theft of customer data from a US financial institution. That bank was JP Morgan Chase.
Actor(s)
Joshua Samuel Aaron, now 32 years old, a United State citizen and resident of Israel, is currently a fugitive. Aaron role in this criminal enterprise was to report to the leader of the group and participate in the computer hacking and the manipulation of stocks to scheme people of their personal information. Joshua Samuel Aaron, who grew up in Potomac, Maryland, was raised in a middle-class America family before his
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They artificially inflated the price of penny stocks through false statements and manipulative trading, and then dumped their holdings before the rest of the market could recognize the fraud. But for this crime to work, Aaron needed access to a lot of names and contact information; people to whom they could pump their personal stock before the hackers dumped the stock. What they needed were victims. That's where Aaron took this classic stock fraud scheme to the next level and brought it into the cyber age. Aaron and his co-conspirators allegedly hacked into networks of 2 financial news companies and 7 major financial institutions including JP Morgan Chase so they can get personal information for tens of millions of customers, people most likely to be engaged in significant stock