On September 19 , 2017 , Epifaniou was file on legion accuse of cabal to cable thieving , telegraph hoax , electronic put-on cabal , and rack . In a 24 - calculate bill of indictment propel from the District of Arizona , he was as well arrest and plead shamefaced to one number of information theft . The cyberpunk will be sentence on March 3 , 2021 . He agree to sacrifice $ 389,113 and roughly 70,000 euro to the authorities in the plea understanding . Epifaniou devote virtually $ 600,000 in compensation to the complainant anterior to plead shamed . Between at least October 2014 and November 2016 , the maiden Cyprian home to be extradite to the U.S. , Joshua Polloso Epifaniou , 21 , of Nicosia , Cyprus , commit the intrigue . Epifaniou was a juvenile cyber-terrorist , consort to romance written document , during the system . The hack aggress both consumer and client explanation , assembly point of concern through leveraging exposure blemish or get at Colorado - conspirator datum . By expect at website substance abuser ranking , he will name potential objective , and so remove personal key selective information ( PII ) from them , with the assist of Centennial State - plotter . Epifaniou reach the dupe ’s website while in ascendancy of the PII , peril to work the slip data world and offering a ransom defrayment in crypto - currentness . The Justice Department order . Some of the victim of the hacker let in an online lark tidings website in Atlanta , Georgia ; a gratis online game publisher in Irvine , California ; a New York , New York , hardware troupe ; an Innsbrook , Virginia , on-line farm out web site ; and Ripoff Report , turn up in Phoenix , Arizona ( ROR ) .