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<div>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/the-great-50m-african-ip-address-heist/</div>
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<div>Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Massive prefix theft in AFRINIC - attributed to an insider<br />From: "Michele Neylon - Blacknight" <michele@blacknight.com><br />Date: 12/6/19 1:14 am<br />To: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>, "anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net" <anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net><br /><br />Great work from Ron<br /> <br /> Sad to see this happen, though it was to be expected considering how much IPs are now worth<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> --<br /> Mr Michele Neylon<br /> Blacknight Solutions<br /> Hosting, Colocation & Domains<br /> https://www.blacknight.com/<br /> http://blacknight.blog/<br /> Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072<br /> Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090<br /> Personal blog: https://michele.blog/<br /> Some thoughts: https://ceo.hosting/<br /> -------------------------------<br /> Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty<br /> Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,R93 X265,Ireland Company No.: 370845<br /> <br /> <br /> On 04/12/2019, 19:43, "anti-abuse-wg on behalf of Suresh Ramasubramanian" <anti-abuse-wg-bounces@ripe.net on behalf of ops.lists@gmail.com> wrote:<br /> <br /> Congratulations, Ron Guilmette. You’ve been doing this for years and this is your biggest success yet.<br /> <br /> https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/330379-how-internet-resources-worth-r800-million-were-stolen-and-sold-on-the-black-market.html<br /> <br /> tl;dr - The insider is apparently Ernest Byaruhanga, AFRINIC employee #2, and he has now separated from AFRINIC<br /> <br /> --srs<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> </div>
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