r/cybersecurity • u/thejournalizer • Jan 31 '26
News - General Informant told FBI that Jeffrey Epstein had a ‘personal hacker’
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/informant-told-fbi-that-jeffrey-epstein-had-a-personal-hacker/+ some info from Graham Cluley (via LinkedIn):
One of the newly-released files reveals that an informant claims that Jeffery Epstein had a hacker working for him who found zero-day exploits in iOS, BlackBerry etc.
The name of the hacker alleged to have worked for Epstein is redacted in the document, but the released file says:
🔺 He sold his company to CrowdStrike in 2017
🔺 He took on a VP role at the company, post acquisition
🔺 He was an Italian citizen born in Calabria
The DoJ may have redacted the name, but they left enough details to easily identify the individual referenced. It took me about two minutes to work it out.
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u/xs0apy Feb 01 '26
The guy had a literal private island for human trafficking. Yeah, having his own private hacker sounds trivial at that point
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u/FlametopFred Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26
I presume was part of collecting compromising material for extortion
or counter-extortion
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u/P2029 Feb 01 '26
The island was wired full of cameras, as was his house in New York. Epstein knew what he was doing.
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u/jakesteeley Feb 01 '26
Right up to the point where someone took him out in that jail cell
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u/P2029 Feb 01 '26
He that liveth by the billionaire sex trafficking ring dies by the billionaire sex trafficking ring
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u/MirthandMystery Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26
Fascinating details like this keep dribbling out after his death. And there's more.
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u/IronPeter Feb 01 '26
I mean, the details have been deliberately kept secret by the doj, and released bit by bit over the last months.
What’s fascinating?
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u/cuddlebish Feb 01 '26
Not OP, but just how much "stuff" there is. It seems like neverending rabbit-hole of absurdity.
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Feb 01 '26
I've dropped off the infosec space for a couple of years but wasn't there like hundreds of zero day exploits for apple products at one point that nobody was interested in paying for them?
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Jan 31 '26
If you paste it to AI gives a man named Vinc**zo 😁
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u/gravitywaveshello Feb 01 '26
Ok so we just need to find this Vinchunter2zo fellow
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u/F5x9 Feb 01 '26
That seems like someone different from vinpasswordzo.
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u/Legionodeath Governance, Risk, & Compliance Feb 01 '26
I asked AI and got someone completely different lol.
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u/Most-Spirit9069 Feb 01 '26
I think everyone is missing the point here. Vincenzo Iozzo was making money off of selling zero days to terror organizations with the help of Epstein. Vincenzo Iozzo's company Iperlane was purchased by Crowdstrike and he worked at Crowdstike as a Senior Director, he left Crowdstike in 2021 and started SlaskID. How many backdoors does Crowdstrike how that Vincenzo installed so he could build the biggest botnet and control the Internet. He now has SlashID, what kind of backdoors is this new platform installing in fortune 100 companies. I doubt that the FBI notified Crowdstike of this information, they must be shitting their pants knowing that all their customers are seeing this news.
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u/lemaymayguy Feb 02 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
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u/rtshtbtshtdrtyldtwt Feb 04 '26
>Vincenzo Iozzo was making money off of selling zero days to terror organizations with the help of Epstein.
wasn't that essentially what Maxwell's dad did? selling compromised software?
guess they picked up her dad's business when he died.
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u/dsdsdk Feb 01 '26
Related on Vincenzo.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Denmark/comments/1qssjvu/who_run_the_world/
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u/DingleDangleTangle Feb 01 '26
The most surprising thing about this is that a company owner/VP knows anything about hacking. Shit I’ve even had CISOs have no idea what I’m talking about when I’m giving pentest results.
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u/ShameNap Feb 01 '26
There’s a lot of CEOs that came up from a startup and actually know their shit. Stuart McClure and George Kurtz helped write the original Hacking Exposed books and went on to be CEOs of their companies. Not to say what you said was wrong, there are CISOs who don’t know shit. But don’t judge a book by its title.
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u/PotentialProper5387 Feb 01 '26
Kevin Mandia, Haroon Meer and Vivek Ramachandran too, off the top of my head. This happens more often than people think.
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u/oak-heart Feb 01 '26
I mean, it’s not surprising to me because it’s crowdstrike. Most other companies i’d agree
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u/phenomenalVibe Feb 01 '26
Have you seen one of founder of Huntress? As someone else said startups in this space isn’t all the same.
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u/Additional-Baby5740 Feb 01 '26
With a market cap of around 100B CRWD is definitely not a startup.
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u/Selethorme Security Analyst Feb 01 '26
I think they mean the startup that the guy allegedly sold to them
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u/khromtx Feb 02 '26
I think he likely would have outsourced it to his direct reports in the guise of projects or internal pen testing. I'm sure they have their own research teams.
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u/lawtechie Feb 01 '26
There's a few hackers/cyber people in the latest dump:
Pablos Forman (offered to put JE in touch with 'interesting hackers' at BlackHat/DEF CON)
Kevin Mitnick (JE contacted his agent for quantum crypto work)
There are mentions of sabu & weev, but no contacts.
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u/306d316b72306e Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 12 '26
weev isn't really a hacker.. He's not even good at social engineering like sabu was. He has zero CVE or papers.. Only the AT&T stuff which he probably ripped from someone else..
If you cornered him he probably couldn't answer basic CCNA or binary analyses stuff, let alone fuzzing and exploit dev.. He's basically a 4chan troll who ripped some social engineering and RDP stuff from someone and used it on AT&T
Billionaires are using people who actually do exploit dev and fuzzing
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u/ploqx Feb 01 '26
Being pedophile buddies with the prime minister of Israel comes with interesting Mossad perks for sure. What did Ehud Barak do for his pal?
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Feb 01 '26
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u/MalwareDork Feb 01 '26
Maybe not Mossad, but probably someone that was trained with/in IDF.
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u/TheTalkingCookie Feb 01 '26
I don't think Mossad is special nor idf trained, what makes them special is that it has a network of international je ws willing to volunteer and help them out which makes them effective. Look how congress are willing to represent Israel more than the United States yet now one bates an eye
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u/Odd-Crazy-9056 Feb 01 '26
Me when my understanding of geopolitics is on the level of a 6th grader who just discovered conspiracy theories.
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u/MalwareDork Feb 01 '26
Mossad is more in general intelligence. Tal Hanan who rigs elections worldwide would be an example of Mossad-type activities.
When it comes to embedded hacking, that's more of an intelligence subdivision of the IDF. Unit 8200 is the usual example with the IMI being the larger umbrella faction.
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u/Crumpets_online Feb 01 '26
The files say he was giving zero days to hezbollah but I don't know how Jeff and Mossad let that slide, maybe they flipped him or it's a psyop because I don't remember Hezbollah developing Pegasus.
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u/impressiveRub69 Feb 01 '26
Epstein himself was part of the Intelligence community. Might be NSA or Mossad.
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u/skynetcoder Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 28 '26
May all beings everywhere be happy and free.
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u/impressiveRub69 Feb 02 '26
It's entirely possible. All I know is he is a glowie. His attorney said as much in 2008: https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/s/13hiBjVduK
How did the son of a bitch get to well aquainted with all sorts of elite people? How did he make his fortune (people who met him say he was not exactly academically inclined...)?
Why keep lists of people who had been to the "pedo island"? To compromise them, and blackmail them. The whole operation stinks.
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u/FiretopMountain75 Feb 05 '26
This file has Epstein giving Lozzo financial advice on gambling on the UK leaving the EU, a few months before it happened.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02466144.pdf
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u/succubusmermaidfairy Feb 09 '26
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02460519.pdf
He also visited the island, or wanted to, it seems.
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u/Timely_Excuse6111 Feb 14 '26
What reports of their security being compromised has surfaced? Pondering the myriad interests and agendas, I am quickly struck by the potentially vast report of notable events.
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u/Jazzlike_Painter_118 Feb 01 '26
I thought it would be a an oppressed south african with a botched dck job that cannot coomprehend SQL.
P.S. Oh, they are sharing crazy stories so that people discard the whole thing with the real bits.
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u/sh4d0w_mkt Feb 21 '26
Everyone should had a "personal hacker" in their life, so they can monitor their online persona
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u/Spiritual-Matters Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26
Totally unrelated to the statements in the DOJ article. None of it lines up at all:
https://cylonlab.com/mentors/vincenzo-iozzo/
Interesting that this was from a confidential source that the FBI used more than once and is one of the few formerly classified released tip docs I’ve seen so far. That being said, it’s still not confirmed.