[3] In 2015, Matthew Earl, a managing partner at ShadowFall Capital & Research, began to study Wirecard AG hoping to short sell them.
In February 2016, he started to write publicly about his discoveries under the alias Zatarra Research & Investigations,[5] accusing Wirecard of corruption, corporate fraud, and money laundering.
Employees from Jones Day, a law firm representing Wirecard,[7] came to visit Earl and gave him a letter, accusing him of collusion, conspiracy, defamation, libel, and market manipulation.
Some of those URLs redirected to websites looking like Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, Dropbox or various webmails – each page customized with the name of the victim, asking the user to re-enter their password.
[1] The instances of the URL shortening service used by Dark Basin had names related to Indian culture: Holi, Rongali and Pochanchi.
[1] BellTroX's founder Sumit Gupta[12] is an Appin alumnus[13][14] and he has been previously indicted and charged in the United States for a hack-for-hire scheme on the behalf of ViSalus.