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Vincenzo Iozzo, a notorious hacker linked to convicted Jeffrey Epstein, is no longer listed on the Black Hat website, one of the world’s largest cyber security conferences, or at the Japanese security conference Code Blue.
As of Thursday, Iozzo does not appear on the board’s official website The Black Hat or What Blue. He was still listed on both sites as of last week. Iozzo has been on the Black Hat advisory board since 2011, according to his LinkedIn profile.
In a statement shared with TechCrunch through a spokesperson, Iozzo said he told Black Hat that he “doesn’t want to quit” and will welcome a “full investigation.”
Black Hat spokespeople did not respond to requests for comment.
Iozzo, currently the founder and CEO of cybersecurity startup SlashID, has had a long career in the industry. Iozzo wrote one of the original books about hackers investigating Apple’s mobile software, and in 2015, he founded IperLane, which was later acquired by CrowdStrike, leading him to become the company’s executive director for nearly four years.
Iozzo’s name appears in more than 2,300 books, some of which are several emailswhich was released on January 30 as part of the Department of Justice’s legal requirement to publish material from its investigation into the late donor and sex trafficker.
Iozzo’s relationship with Epstein from October 2014 to December 2018. Late 2018, Miami Herald published articles detailing the cases that Epstein he abused more than 60 womensome of them are young girls.
When this article was published, it was just released Emails show Iozzo tries to meet with Epstein at his New York apartment.
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Among the new documents published by the Department of Justice, more than 2,300 documents against Iozzo, there was also a report from an FBI informant who said that Epstein had a “stealer.” The document has been redacted and does not name the suspected hacker. However, some of the information included in the affidavit strongly suggests that the informant believed Iozzo to be Epstein’s extortionist. Italian newspaper The Corriere della Sera He reported on the emails earlier this month and named Iozzo as the person who wrote the document.
It is important to note that the FBI’s claims and statements have not been verified by the FBI and may be slightly inaccurate. Furthermore, there is no evidence in the emails to suggest that Iozzo did anything illegal with Epstein.
Iozzo said in a statement to TechCrunch that he “knew Epstein for professional reasons” and that he wished he hadn’t, but denied claims that he was Epstein’s hacker or that he cheated on him.
“We were informed in 2014 when I was 25 years old at MIT to fund the start-up, with people I trusted and admired. Because of this, I failed to ask the right questions that, in retrospect, seem obvious,” read the statement, which was sent by his spokesperson Joan Vollero. I foolishly accepted a story that others told me that greatly reduced his evil deeds.
“My interactions with Epstein were limited to business opportunities that have not been seen, and discussions about emerging markets and technologies. I have not witnessed or engaged in any illegal activity or behavior,” added Iozzo.
In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from girls under the age of 14 and registered as sex offenders in Florida and New York. In 2018, new reports emerged that Epstein sexually abused and trafficked young girls to his private island. After the new reports, the Department of Justice the accused Epstein in 2019 for trafficking, exploiting and abusing many teenage girls. Epstein later he died in prison.
A spokesman for Iozzo Vollero, or his lawyer Emma Spiro, did not explain why Iozzo was removed from Black Hat’s website, but did not dispute the removal.
“Mr. Iozzo received an independent investigation from Black Hat, and not an exoneration, because he is confident that he will be cleared through the process,” Vollero said.
Code Blue spokesperson Ken-ichi Saito confirmed to TechCrunch that the conference has removed Iozzo’s name from the review board. Saito said the board had “planned this for months” to remove Iozzo and two other board members “who have never served” and that “the timing of the change to our website coincided with the release of the Epstein documents.”
