Long-time Slashdot reader v3rgEz shared this report from MuckRock:
Founded in 2003, Appin has been described as a cybersecurity company and an educational consulting firm. Appin was also, according to Reuters reporting and extensive marketing materials, a prolific "hacking for hire" service, steali.
A loose coalition of anti-censorship voices is working to highlight reports of one Indian company’s hacker-for-hire past and the legal threats aimed at making them disappear.