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I saw speculation on Twitter that it was Google or Apple and Facebook. But to me, it seems like it could be any of dozens of companies based on "Internet-related services and products" and "multinational ... online social media/networking".

See also: affidavit [1]

[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/342639731/Rimasauskas-Affida...



They do say that the victims "regularly conducted multimillion-dollar transactions" with the computer hardware company that was being impersonated.

That does narrow it down to companies in those spaces that run on their own metal, and significant amounts of it.


Multimillion could be 2 or 10 and as far as running your own metal that's not really a big purchase relative to your average Fortune 100's IT budget.


The space, though, is more narrow than that. Victim 2, for example, is specifically a social media company. Can't be that many social media companies, headquartered in the US, running their own metal, with more than one multi-million dollar invoice for it in a 2 year period.

How many could that be? I can only think of 3 or 4 contenders.




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