“Jeff stated that he was a former systems administrator for a Richmond based telecommunications company and was helping NCIX’s landlord recover the money he was owed in exchange for being able to copy the source code, and database to aid his development team on a project,” wrote Doering.Īccording to Doering, Jeff said that he still possessed approximately “300 desktop computers from NCIX’s corporate offices and retails stores, 18 Dell Poweredge servers, as well as at least two Supermicro server’s running StarWind iSCSI Software that NCIX had used to back up their hard disks.” NCIX reportedly abandoned the hardware when they didn’t pay past rent worth $150,000. Jeff and I agreed to meet again on September 5th, 2018 after he had located all the hard drives for me to analyze,” wrote Doering.ĭoering said that he established a rapport with Jeff, who revealed that the current owner of the hardware in his possession is NCIX’s previous landlord. “I thought these revelations to be shocking enough, however I would later discover that the data on those servers was only the tip of the ice berg. Jeff allowed Doering to review the contents of the server, which also contained XML files full of plain text names, usernames, passwords and addresses.ĭoering wrote that Jeff said he possessed “NCIX’s entire server farm from the east coast which was shipped back to their Richmond warehouse several months ago.” According to Doering, the seller was an Asian man in his mid-thirties who identified himself as Jeff. Doering ultimately met with the seller on August 25th, 2018, at a warehouse in Richmond, British Columbia.
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