PRESS RELEASE RE PSA

We are currently not distributing samples to any media agencies. Furthermore, our policy restricts sharing these materials strictly to established, mainstream agencies. You know who you are. We initially provided samples to a select group of prominent U.S. media organizations solely to verify our claims, mainly operating under the assumption that they would handle the sensitive sample data responsibly. We explicitly told each journalist we shared samples with to NOT share the sample file with others and to explicitly delete the sample data after they complete their assessment. Due to the high sensitivity of this situation, one or more of the journalists involved shared these samples with a security researcher that we are aware of. In our experience, security researchers are both white and blackhats. We believe that security researcher is going to share it with his counterparts. That security researcher has made a YouTube video bragging about how he has the sample data. We keep a strict circle and control over the things we do. Our allegation here is accurate. If the 5,000 sample data records leak, it's not because of us, it's because of any journalist who exercised bad practice and shared it with the security researcher that we are speaking of. We are actively working to figure out which one of the journalists is responsible for sharing such material with unauthorized persons and without our consent. That was very inappropriate for a journalist to do. Because of this we will put a halt to responding to press inquiries. If you are someone with access to the 5,000 samples you are either a journalist or security researcher working a job in the industry. We kindly advise you delete the file immediately. NO FURTHER, EXTRA, OR NEW SAMPLES OF THIS DATA IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. We redirect all readers and the FBI to our PSA on the right side of your screen on our page.