ST. LOUIS — A 38-year-old British man who is allegedly a member of a hacking group called The Dark Overlord has pleaded not guilty in U.S. federal court in Missouri to charges that he threatened to release data stolen from health care and accounting companies.
According to the United States Department of Justice, Nathan Francis Wyatt, 39, was extradited from the United Kingdom to the Eastern District of Missouri and arraigned on Dec. 18 on charges related to his role in The Dark Overlord group, which targeted St. Louis-area victims beginning in 2016.
Wyatt faces a conspiracy charge, two aggravated identity theft charges and three counts of threatening to damage a protected computer. He and co-conspirators are accused of accessing company data and demanding ransom paid in bitcoin or they would release the data publicly.
The department of justice said Wyatt is suspected of creating email and phone accounts that he used to send threatening and extortionate messages to victims.
The companies were in Missouri, Illinois and Georgia.
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