Mod: Big bucks Evangelical preacher Kenneth 'Ha! Ha!' Copeland has been hacked by the Russians. And if he doesn't pay up they'll divulge secrets that up until now only God knew. Say hallelujah, sinners. Televangelist Kenneth Copeland who mocked Biden victory with maniacal fake laugh ‘hit by Russian hackers’ (The Sunlink): Millionaire televangelist Kenneth Copeland has allegedly been hit by hackers who are threatening to release 1.2 terabytes of data about his business. Copeland - who went viral over his maniacal fake laugh at Joe Biden's election win - has become the latest high profile figure targeted by ransomware gang REvil, according to a post on the gang’s dark web site.
Russian hacking group
REvil published on their dark web headquarters,
Happy Blog, that they had accessed
Copeland's firm and presented a string of screenshots as alleged evidence.
The gang has previously threatened to auction off data allegedly stolen from pop star Madonna, released legal documents relating to Lady Gaga, and tried to extort Donald Trump.
The group uses ransomware - a type of software often unknowingly installed by the victim - to break into a networks and encrypt them. FBI agents are said to have described the gang as "cyber terrorists", to which the group angrily responded in a blog post, moaning "your position is your choice".
Copeland, 83, who has an estimated net worth of $760 million, based in
Texas, heads up
Kenneth Copeland Ministries (
KCM) and is one of the world's wealthiest pastors. He has risen to notoriety in 2020 after a string of bizarre claims about the coronavirus pandemic. Hackers claim they managed to get inside
KCM's systems and steal more than 1.2tb of data, the equivalent of around 120,000 storage boxes of files.
Screenshots show banks of alleged computer files with labels such as "budgets", "projects", "payroll" and "inventory".
Writing in broken English, hackers threaten the data "will soon be made public". They claim to have "financial documents, contracts, bank documents, sales history, emails, bases, geo documents".
"Money, authority religion and again money. A success story. Absolutely all servers and working computers of the company are hacked and encrypted," the cyber criminals claim. It is understood the listing has now been taken down from the site on the dark web.
REvil is known to have released legitimate documents stolen from companies into the public, and has previously threatened President Trump.
Watch: Preacher Kenneth Copeland Confronted by Interviewer over Lavish Lifestyle (
Heavylink):
Inside Edition Chief Investigative Correspondent Lisa Guerrero confronted televangelist
Kenneth Copeland over his lavish lifestyle and the results were uncomfortable.
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