This is not the first time the Allwine case has been in the news – it was first reported about one year ago when the husband was arrested, but it’s in court now. Kyle Swenson of The Washington Post, WP Bloomberg reports on the trial of Stephen Allwine for the murder of Amy Allwine.
The case is just so bizarre because it involved a web site, “Besa Mafia,” that purported to be an Albanian mafia contract site where customers could arrange for “hits” or other illegal activities. The Besa Mafia site was hacked and the data dumped publicly, but was it ever a real hit site? Law enforcement sources claim it was likely a scam site, but the customers making payments to it certainly didn’t know it was a scam, and the data dump revealed evidence of a man trying to arrange a hit on Amy Allwine – evidence that forensics were subsequently able to tie to her husband’s computer.
So read the story – it’s a made-for-TV situation until you remember that a real person was murdered and lives destroyed. And then ask yourself about breaches of online databases. No big deal, right? Except that some of them are a very big deal.
Breaches. It’s not all about credit cards and tax returns, folks.
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