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From: Borat.Taratuta@ArseKo.cn
Date: Tue, Aug 6, 8:00 AM
Subject: Possible Data Breach Report
To: ArseKoManagement@ArseKo.cn, Gengis.Khan@ArseKo.cn, Gluteus.Minimus@ArseKo.cn, Zhiang.Zemin@ArseKo.cn, Mingze.Ksi@ArseKo.cn
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Dear Colleagues,
Its my disturbing duty to report a possible data breach of ArseKo users EEG data and a possible infiltration of ArseKo Inc by an organized criminal organization known on the news as the NXIVM cult (pronounced Nexium). The leaders of this organization are on trial in NY and the details of its operations are being exposed as they are being convicted this summer. (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/nyregion/nxivm-trial-raniere.html)
As many of you may know Mr. Zen Fryers has recently departed ArseKo with the stated desire to pursue other opportunities. Mr. Fryers was actually a high level executive in the NXIVM organization, their IT specialist and has been described by the press as NXIVM’s top hacker. Investigative news reports of Mr. Fryers activity show that he may have been involved in a perjury, setup and framing of those who tried to expose NXIVM. Mr. Fryers was also tangentially involved as a motivation in a kidnapping and captivity of one of NXIVM’s victims. Mr. Fryers is also reported to provide training to NXIVM members on how to hack their victims passwords thru keyloggers. (https://frankreport.com/?s=nxivm+Zen+Fryers )
This group posed as a self-help pyramid scheme offering “executive empowerment” courses and seminars. In reality these were used to select susceptible victims for extortion and blackmail. Victims, who included many famous and wealthy people, were coerced to participate in crimes and gruesome initiation ceremonies thru threats of revealing their incriminating or embarrassing secrets. Once ensnared, the victim would be forced to participate in more compromising situations to further entangle them. (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/magazine/sex-cult-empowerment-nxivm-keith-raniere.html )
This group preached an ideology of abuse and manipulation through belittling ego abuse ranging from garden-variety bullying and putting people down to open misogyny and antisemitism. The group’s leadership literally thought of themselves as being high ranking Nazis in former lives. (https://frankreport.com/2019/07/14/nxivm-leader-keith-raniere-was-holocaust-denier-claimed-top-members-were-former-nazis/ )
A NXIVM doctor is on trial and having his medical license revoked for “Human Fright Experiments” that involve recording a subject’s EEG brainwaves while they are unwittingly shown extremely disturbing videos. It seems that this was used to select susceptible victims based on their emotional reaction as recorded by the EEG. (A proper clinical multi-electrode setup he got from the hospital.) (Warning, very graphic descriptions that are extremely disturbing and hard to unthink:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nxivm-fright-study-1.4880535
https://frankreport.com/2018/06/28/here-is-what-dr-brandon-porter-is-accused-of/ )
A further interest of NXIVM in EEG sensing is shown in the hilarious patent filed by the cult leader. (https://patents.google.com/patent/US20130281879 ) If one reads past the arcane terminology, what is being talked about is a Machine Learning Classifier algorithm using EEG recordings. Like any other ML algorithm, it would need to be trained using lots of EEG data. While this cult leader’s patent is ludicrous enough to win “the stupid patent of the month” award (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/stupid-patent-month-alleged-cult-leader-wants-improve-performance), NXIVM has hundreds of millions of dollars at its disposal and computer scientists like Zen Fryers on staff. Implementing a classifier algorithm and feeding it EEG data is something they could easily do, but they would need access to training data for whatever nefarious purpose their system would serve. ArseKo’s user data seems like it would be a desirable training set. Whether tied to actual users or used anonymously, this data should not be in the hands of the NXIVM cult.
While counseling some of the ArseKo employees about Mr Fryers’ workplace abuse, it was brought to our attention that Mr. Fryers attempted to gain exclusive access to the user data and monopolize that access for himself. We did not give this fact much thought at the time, however this is also a red flag indicating a suspicious desire for controlling EEG data.
Given the fact that NXIVM had interest in EEG experiments, and taking Mr. Fryers’ nefarious background into account, it is very reasonable to suspect that ArseKo Inc was a target of a concerted effort to obtain ArseKo user’s EEG data. ArseKo employees working with this data were trained on the importance of security and privacy of our user’s data and the utmost need to treat these medical records safe. Even a small chance of those records falling into the hands of such a criminal organization as NXVIM is a serious call to act for ArseKo management and employees.
ArseKo Professional Organization advises ArseKo management to take steps to secure user data and report the possibility of a breach to the authorities. Given the nature of Dr. Porter and NXVIM interest in brainwave EEG research, MA and NY state authorities should be aware that NXIVM’s executive hacker may have had access to ArseKo EEG data. Please provide any details or logs you may have about Mr. Fryers’ activities while at ArseKo and any other pertinent information to the authorities. Being forthright is paramount in trying to re-establish the trust of the public and the authorities.
ArseKo employees were exposed to abuse from Mr. Fryers. The belittling and ganging up on employees displayed by Mr. Fryers are characteristic of the abuse preached by NXIVM. I have witnessed and tried to provide counseling to some of the employees targeted by Mr. Fryers. While just knowing that the abuse was intentional is enough to help counter most of the abuse damage, we should not forget that being exposed to a toxic environment has a lasting toll on everyone, including bystanders, even in small doses.
We urge anyone who feels affected to talk to either their friends and family, an anonymous counselor or even your professional organization representatives (we promise to keep it confidential). Please beware HR based mediation and Employee Assistance Programs. As has been revealed by the MeToo exposures, the HR process is often a legal risk reduction process designed to protect the company by falsely finding fault with employees for management failures. Often this is done by purposefully discrediting the employee and causes much more damage on top of the effects of abuse. Contact your professional organization representatives with any concerns.
Thank you for your attention,
BT
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Borat Taratuta
Biotronical Engineer | at Arse Robotics
A 121 Beacon St. STE 501, Somerville, MA, 02143
E borat.taratuta@ArseKo.cn
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From: Gluteus.Minimus@ArseKo.cn,
Date: Tue, Aug 6, 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: Possible Data Breach Report
To: Borat.Taratuta@ArseKo.cn, Gengis.Khan@ArseKo.cn,
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Hi Borat,
I discussed with the software team about Zen’s access to our data. He was never given access to MaoStorage or BMC where we store user data. He did have access to front end user interface files on ZitBum, but didn’t have access to our algorithms.
I asked the software team to check to make sure there wasn’t any suspicious activity on anything to do with our data. They didn’t find anything. I am going to make sure they do that regularly.
We will continue our work with our data privacy consultants and legal counsel to make sure we stay on top of our data privacy duties.
If you want to discuss anything further I am flexible for most of the rest of this week.
Best,
Glute
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From: Borat.Taratuta@ArseKo.cn
Date: Wed, Aug 7, 1:20 PM
To: Gengis.Khan@ArseKo.cn, Gluteus.Minimus@ArseKo.cn,
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Hi Glute,
Yes, Thank you. Subtra informed me yesterday afternoon that Zen Fryer’s access was removed after ArseKo found out about his background. Subtra said that the company feared Zen might hurt people in the office and was terminated because of this.
First of all, this means that ArseKo management knew of the danger Zen Myers presented, but did not inform the employees and instead said Zen Fryers left to pursue other opportunities. We understand that even rumors of such a data breach are very damaging to ArseKo’s reputation. But this presents a conflict of interest for the management, since even this rumor can be used by Zen Fryers to keep us from reporting his activity. For all we know Zen Fryers may be trying to infiltrate another EEG company now.
We are faced with someone who trained others on how to steal passwords using keystroke logger email attacks. A man married to a billionaire’s heiress that sponsors weird EEG “fright experiments” went to another state to work at an EEG company’s marketing team, even though his background is in IT. How many red flags is that? This looks a whole lot like ArseKo was specifically targeted by this criminal organization. This group is well versed in using people’s secrets or disadvantages like immigration status for blackmail and manipulation.
The climate of fear and silencing of employees makes ArseKo a very soft target for an abuse cult like NXVIM. There were multiple reports and witnessed incidents of workplace and sexual harassment from Zen Fryers. I myself witnessed Zen Fryers and Norman Grimsby gang up and attempt to discredit an employees they disliked. Once in front of Glute, after we tried to educate him on how to spot workplace scapegoating patterns. I know that Zen Fryers insisted on having me fired after I announced our ArseKo Professional Organization’s union drive. Please advise Norman Grimsby that most of his anti-union rhetoric has its roots in 1930s antisemitism. We the employees of ArseKo have a right to organize for mutual protection, management should work to temper its eliminationist instinct in the face of legitimate criticism.
I do not mean to cast any aspersions on Mr Grimsby’s background, but there was a report of a comment he made about how easy it would be for someone to take our server from the rack and walk out of the building with it. Did he really work for a three-letter agency like he claims? Is he really from NH?
While we have the utmost confidence in our software teams’ development skill set, they are not network security specialists, especially considering the extreme nature of the attack. An infiltrator was in our office for almost a year. All of our keystrokes might be recorded as you read this. I would advise contacting the authorities and possibly an independent network security company. I understand how delicate the matter is, but we need a proper assessment of the situation. People might start getting weird keylogger attacks that look like vendor emails, new passwords might be compromised, employees need to be informed.
This is a decision that needs to be made by the management after consulting the legal counsel, but it seems the authorities need to be informed. Turning the blind eye works in the short term, but may bring major problems down the road. Do we really want to find out a few years later that NXVIM is using our data to find new victims? Or that they are doing it to multiple companies, but no-one could speak out for a fear of data breach rumors.
The Attorney General’s contact information is hanging next to the fridge in the kitchen. She's a very nice woman and would surely understand the delicacy of the situation and our privacy concerns.
Thanks,
BT
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Gluteus Minimus, Call the Cops Meeting
Gluteus Minimus, Call the Cops Meeting
Note to self. Friday 9/6/19.
Right before leaving work Borat Taratuta contacted by Gluteus Minimus in the ArseKo kitchen. Told that network security firm was contracted to deal with Zen Fryers threat.
Borat Taratuta asks if law enforcement was contacted.
Glue said no, why [should I].
Borat Taratuta asks what ZF was doing at BrainCo. GM said project manager. Borat Taratuta asks why would a millionaire be working at BrainCo as a project manager. GM asks, is ZF a millionaire? Borat Taratuta says all the newspapers print that he's married to a millionaire. GM asks "the Seagram's heiress"? Borat Taratuta nods*, tells GM that he should call the cops, and leaves work. Retold the story an hour later to two acquaintances without mentioning the company name.
* Different nexium connected millionairess. Borat Taratuta did not remember which of the wealthy wifey prizes Zen Fryers was awarded for not spilling the beans about the woman being imprisoned for his "slaver's kiss". Frank Report confirms that the Fryers family is still in possession of at least $1-2M unconfiscated when Zen's mums in law shoeboxes of nexium cash were raided by the Feds.
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