“I hacked your company,” says a message on the CEO’s monitor. “You should hire me to protect you.” It seems like something out of a 90s Hollywood movie (or a self-aware 2010s YouTube short). But a Missouri man allegedly tried to make it a reality by “hacking” multiple businesses and selling his security services to them. He got arrested instead.
According to the US Attorney’s Office in Kansas City, Missouri, Nicholas Michael Kloster has been formally charged with accessing a protected computer and related offenses. The press release (spotted by BleepingComputer) compiles investigation from the FBI and the Kansas City Police Department. It alleges that Kloster “entered the premises” of a health club, accessed its computers, then emailed the owner and asked to be hired for his “security service.”
A few weeks later, Kloster posted on social media (the exact one isn’t mentioned) with a screenshot of himself remotely controlling the club’s security cameras. “How to get a company …