KrebsOnSecurity Threatened with Defamation Lawsuit Over Fake Radaris CEO

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 19:16:01 +0000

On March 8, 2024, KrebsOnSecurity published a deep dive on the consumer data broker Radaris, showing how the original owners are two men in Massachusetts who operated multiple Russian language dating services and affiliate programs, in addition to a dizzying array of people-search websites. The subjects of that piece are threatening to sue KrebsOnSecurity for defamation unless the story is retracted. Meanwhile, their attorney has admitted that the person Radaris named as the CEO from its inception is a fabricated identity.

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