Authorities in Canada have arrested a man suspected of stealing information from around 165 companies using Snowflake’s cloud storage services, according to reports from Bloomberg and 404 Media.

Canadian man arrested in connection with Snowflake data breach The breach affected hundreds of millions of customers This was likely a 'credential stuffing' attack Canadian authorities have confirmed that an arrest has been made in connection to the significant breach of Snowflake earlier in 2024.

Reports published by Krebs On Security and 404 Media in September 2024 revealed that Judische is likely based in Canada and has connections to a broader cybercrime ecosystem called the Com, which is known to engage in physical and digital attacks, sometimes resorting to violence, to gain access to accounts and steal funds from rivals.

On October 30, Canadian authorities arrested Alexander Moucka, a.k.a. Connor Riley Moucka of Kitchener, Ontario, on a provisional arrest warrant from the United States. Bloomberg first reported Moucka’s alleged ties to the Snowflake hacks on Monday.

Canadian authorities have arrested a man suspected of being behind a string of hacks involving as many as 165 customers of Snowflake Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.

Canadian authorities arrested a suspected extortionist tied to the hacking theft of terabytes of data from clients of cloud-based data warehousing platform