{"id":299242,"date":"2023-11-16T14:54:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T20:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=299242"},"modified":"2023-11-17T09:52:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T15:52:07","slug":"draftkings-hacker-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-600k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/draftkings-hacker-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-600k\/","title":{"rendered":"DraftKings Hacker Pleads Guilty to Stealing $600K from Customer Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Madison, Wisconsin teenager pled guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. The plea came in relation to the theft of more than $600K from around 1,600 DraftKings accounts.<\/p>\n

\"Joseph
Joseph Garrison, above, made more than $2.1 million from fraud by the time he was 18. He also had a habit of making bomb threats to his high school, according to prosecutors. (Image: Dane County Sheriff\u2019s Office)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Joseph Garrison<\/a>, 18, who once bragged to a coconspirator that \u201cfraud is fun,\u201d faces up to five years in a federal prison.<\/p>\n

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On Nov. 18, 2022, the teenager, with others, launched a credential-stuffing attack on the DraftKings sportsbook, according to prosecutors. This is where a cybercriminal uses log-in credentials that have typically been stolen during large-scale corporate data breaches and purchased on the Dark Web.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The hacker then uses the stolen credentials to gain access to accounts where the user has the same password.<\/p>\n

Once in, Garrison and his accomplices were able to add a new payment method to the account, deposit $5 to verify that method, and then withdraw all the existing funds, court documents claim.<\/p>\n

\u2018Addicted\u2019 to Fraud<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The attack, which was reported<\/a> by Casino.org<\/em> at the time, caused DraftKings\u2019 shares to fall 5% on the Nasdaq. Investors feared a drop-off in consumer confidence in the mobile sportsbook, which had recently launched in many new U.S. state markets.<\/p>\n

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When the FBI raided Garrison\u2019s home in February 2023, they found credential-stuffing software, which had been used to target dozens of different corporate websites. Agents also found files containing nearly 40 million pairs of usernames and passwords on the suspect\u2019s computer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Meanwhile, conversations extracted from Garrison\u2019s phone included discussions on how to hack and exploit the DraftKings website, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFraud is fun,\u201d Garrison wrote to a coconspirator, according to court documents. \u201cI’m addicted to seeing money in my account. I\u2019m like obsessed with bypassing shit.\u201d<\/p>\n

$15K Per Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n

During the investigation in Wisconsin, it was discovered Garrison allegedly had made more than $2.1 million from cyberfraud by the time he was 18. Between 2018 and 2021, his activities were making him $15k a day.<\/p>\n

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This isn\u2019t Garrison\u2019s first brush with the law. Just months before the DraftKings attack, he was charged with five counts of making a bomb threat, three counts of making terrorist threats, and one count of attempted bomb threat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

These related to Garrison\u2019s habit of hiring third parties over the internet to dial in threats to his school, Memorial High School in Madison, prosecutors said. He did this on five occasions because he was \u201cbored and wanted to go home,\u201d according to court documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Madison, Wisconsin teenager pled guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. The plea came in relation to the theft of more than $600K from around 1,600 DraftKings accounts. Joseph Garrison, 18, who once bragged to a coconspirator that \u201cfraud is fun,\u201d faces up to five years in a federal prison. On Nov. 18, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":299243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1074,16693],"tags":[81842,88788,88787],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDraftKings Hacker Pleads Guilty to Stealing $600K<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Joseph Garrison raided 1,600 DraftKings accounts using credential-stuffing techniques. 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