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Who Put Umbreon on the FBI Jobs Site | 2 Minute Drill with Drex DeFord
In late September a giant picture of Umbreon, the black Pokemon with the yellow rings, showed up on the page where someone applies to be an FBI agent. Pepijn van der Stap, 24, from the Netherlands, used that name online a few years ago. He stole databases, sold them on hacker forums, and extorted the companies he hit. Drex DeFord puts the take somewhere between 1.5 million and 2.7 million euros. Van der Stap confessed in 2023, received a four-year sentence, and got out in late 2025. He worked as a software engineer at Hadrian, volunteered with a Dutch nonprofit that warns people about…
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