[bitbasher]

Wasn't he the guy that used tar for the leaked folder of data, but the tar included his user folder which contained his legal name?

[Hamuko]

Yes, the tar command claims another victim. Tested while inside /var/www/html/vastaamo and then stuffed it in the crontab.

  $ tar cvf /var/www/html/vastaamo/vastaamo.tar . -C /var/www/html/vastaamo --exclude vastaamo.tar

For reference:

  -C, --directory=DIR
         Change to DIR before performing any operations.  This
         option is order-sensitive, i.e. it affects all options
         that follow.

[shellac]

It's in the article. Not sure it had his name, but certainly his family name since he looked for records concerning his relatives.

[ryanlol]

The queries appear to have been looking for me specifically, filtering by date of birth. That wouldn't be a good way to find my relatives.

[bitbasher]

Ah yes-- I first heard of this via an entertaining video about it, "One Drunken Mistake Destroyed Finland's Scummiest Hacker", see below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCcvPfT_jU

[ryanlol]

No, that did not actually happen.

[snet0]

What did happen, then?