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Security9 min

How Do Hackers Get Caught? 9 OPSEC Mistakes From Court Records

How do hackers get caught? In the cases that reach court, usually through their own history: an old personal email, a reused password, a login from home, a crypto account opened with real ID, or a trip abroad. Here is how the FBI and journalists made the link in real cases, with a primary source for each, and what those published addresses still return today.

Guides9 min

How to Find a GitHub Account by Email: What Real Lookups Returned

GitHub has no public search for hidden emails, but commit attribution links addresses to accounts. Four manual checks, what an email lookup adds, and seven public-record cases where a court or sanctions address led to a GitHub profile created years before the case.