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Dearthy Star pleads guilty to selling info of 65K health care employees

Justin Sean Johnson, a 30-year-old from Detroit, Michigan, has pleaded guilty to stealing the personally identifiable information (PII) of 65,000 employees of health care provider and insurer University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and selling it on the dark web.

Fourth Guilty Plea in UPMC Hacking Incident

Michigan Man Admits Selling UPMC Employee Data - Infosecurity Magazine

Michigan Man Admits Selling UPMC Employee Data A hacker from Michigan has admitted to stealing the sensitive data of more than 65,000 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) employees and selling it online. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) IT specialist Justin Sean Johnson, known on the dark web by the handles TheDearthStar, Dearthy Star, TDS, and DS, hacked into UPMC s human resources database in January 2014. Six years later, the 30-year-old resident of Detroit was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh and subsequently arrested on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Among the data swiped and sold by Johnson was W-2 information and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) that included Social Security numbers, addresses, names and salary information. Conspirators who bought the data from Johnson via forums filed hundreds of false form 1040 tax returns in 2014 using UPMC employee PII. 

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