Vinny Troia
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| Born | Vincenzo Troia August 21, 1980 New Jersey, United States |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | American |
| 🏫 Education | PhD (Information Security) |
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| 💼 Occupation | Hacking forensics investigator, cybersecurity speaker, author |
| 📆 Years active | 1997–present |
| 🏢 Organization | Night Lion Security |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Jessica R. Troia |
| 🌐 Website | vinnytroia |
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Vincenzo Troia (born August 21, 1980) is a computer security professional, hacking forensic investigator, and cybersecurity author. He owns and operates Night Lion Security, a cybersecurity services firm, and earned a PhD in Information Security and Assurance from Capella University for research investigating the perceived effectiveness of the CyberSecurity Framework among information security leaders.[1] He is credited with the discovery of several major data breaches including Exactis[2] and People Data Labs.[3][4]
In 2017, Troia was appointed to the Hacker Advisory Board of MGT Capital Investments, a cybersecurity holdings company led by John McAfee.[5]
Troia's recent work in cyber fraud investigations includes exposing the identities of hacking groups The Dark Overlord and ShinyHunters. These groups have been attributed to nearly 40% of all non-credit card-related data breaches between 2017 and 2020, essentially fueling an entire underground black-market of stolen user accounts.[6] Troia's research details an underground supply chain where video game accounts from popular games like Fortnite and Roblox are among the most valuable and sought after, accounting for a significant portion of the 700+ million dollars in annual black-market revenue generated by these underground markets and data brokers.[7][8]
Published works[edit]
Troia is the author of the book Hunting Cyber Criminals: A Hacker's Guide to Online Intelligence Gathering Tools and Techniques (ISBN 1119540925 Search this book on 
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References[edit]
- ↑ "The Cybersecurity Framework as an Effective Information Security Baseline: A Qualitative Exploration". ProQuest. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ↑ Greenberg, Andy. "Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database With 340 Million Records". Wired. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
- ↑ "A Billion People's Data Left Unprotected on Google Cloud Server". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2021-02-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Newman, Lily. "1.2 Billion Records Found Exposed Online in a Single Server". Wired. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
- ↑ "Mcafee firm names st louis hacker to advisory". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
- ↑ "ShinyHunters hacking ground is on a data breach spree". Wired. 2020-06-21. Retrieved 2021-02-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Fortnite Black Market part of a billion-dollar hacker economy". Fox News. 2020-08-27. Retrieved 2021-02-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Stolen Fortnite accounts sold as part of a 1billion dollar black market". Bloomberg L.P. 2020-08-28. Retrieved 2021-02-26. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Hunting Cyber Criminals". Wiley.
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