The police report had three screenshots of Hacker News discussions where he had participated. His nickname was redacted (like were all others), but the screenshots are for:
Not sure how legal it is to share it around, but you can find it online if you can do some web sleuthing in Finnish. Or if you're Finnish, you can just order the docs directly from the police for a fee.
Yet, as far as I can see, no facts have been posted. Just 1 random person saying "it's this guy", and 2 other random people saying "believe me, it is lol".
>> Zee/"ryanc" has indeed been involved in things like these for many years. HTP (Linode + much more) is just a small part of it.
>> I'm also very surprised it's taken this long for him to be arrested. He's completely brazen and has committed countless crimes despite knowing full well the general public and law enforcement know exactly who he is.
ryanlol responded:
> Just because someone knows who I am does not mean that'll matter when it comes to proving things in court, which in real life isn't as easy as one might imagine.
> PS: Want to read some of his Hacker News comments? Usernames are ryanlol, FDSGSG, rosnd, rosndo, prvit, lfodofod, ryanl0l, bbbbb5, gggggg5 (which stopped posting right after his arrest).
While Krebs has more weight than a random HN person, he has a poor record in this department and has doxxed innocent people before [1], and people he doesn't agree with out of spite [2]. So, yeah... Not holding much weight with me.
Also, according to this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211782): he's HN's own https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ryanlol.