The Impoverished Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois

Sounds like a genuinely nice guy and I hope he gets the financial support he seems to need right now however something in the article caught my eye - "Then they [FBI Agents] began requesting lists of IP addresses that had uploaded files to ID Ransomware, which could help identify victims, as well as ransom notes and other material."

From the ID Ransomware site - "Any email addresses or BitCoin addresses found in files uploaded to ID Ransomware may be stored and shared with trusted third parties or law enforcement. No personally identifiable data is stored." If he is supplying IP addresses and copies of ransom notes without consent well, yeah maybe the web site should make it a bit clearer that it's not just email and bitcoin info he shares. A further quote a bit further down reads "He tips them (the FBI) off, for instance, when a ransom note or extension on a file uploaded to the site identifies the targeted business." Still, seems like his heart is in the right place so I'll close with a more positive snippet - "Gillespie hopes that someday his services will no longer be needed, because businesses and people will have learned proper cybersecurity. “If the world had backups, then we wouldn’t have ransomware,” he said."