FBI finally arrests group of former Xbox hackers

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It appears the FBI has been operating a long running case against a group of hackers specializing in companies involved with the Xbox gaming platform. The series of indictments against the three men lead us to believe that their criminal ventures dealt primarily with Microsoft and their top tier game development partners. At this time it appears there are still two unknown perpetrators within the group still at large, the FBI held off at least eight months before serving the current trios arrest warrants for reasons still unknown. It may have been due to "Person A", as described in the documents as an informant, has been actively colluding with federal authorities in efforts to glean even more information from the group.



The FBI has served arrest warrants on Sanadodeh Nesheiwat(left) and Nathan Leroux(right) involving 15 felony charges ranging from computer hacking to stealing trade secrets; a third perpetrator known as David Pokora is still MIA.


Full List of charges against the accused:

  • One count of Conspiracy
  • One count of Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud
  • Four counts of Wire Fraud
  • One count of Conspiracy to Commit Theft of Trade Secrets
  • Three counts of Unauthorized Computer Access
  • Two counts of Criminal Copyright Infringement
  • One count of Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud
  • One count of Attempted Mail Fraud
  • One count of Conspiracy to Commit Identity Theft
  • One count of Aggravated Identity Theft


The two unknown parties according to the FBI are a man from North Carolina and a Australian teenager we believe to be SuperDAE who we previously reported on here. The indictment document can be viewed here via "The Smoking Gun" who first broke the story.

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ModLuv4YaPosted:

as long as they don't arrest C4eva I'm good

Evo8Posted:

Pubs Lol they looks far from hackers


Eh they look like hackers to me.

3OH3Posted:

Pubs Lol they looks far from hackers


Nah they look just like game hackers lol. Look at the computer science department at your university

TryHardForLifePosted:

I know the guy on the left. He would dumb me like 50 (12 month) codes for $100

SW01Posted:

I laughed too much when I saw the one on the right.

PubsPosted:

Lol they looks far from hackers

TwiiitchyPosted:

They look like they are going to do good in prison... lol.

GrandTheftAutoFivePosted:

Conspiracy, wow what a **** joke

WeekendOffender1337Posted:

So easy to get involved in Fraud, but dang i'd like to have racked up alot more counts than that before getting caught.

JMWPosted:

I don't think that's SuperDAE because hes still tweeting and it doesn't look like him. The middle top picture is him, but I don't think he was arrested.