The Indian company hacked on an industrial scale, stealing data from political leaders, international executives, prominent attorneys and more. Randall’s inbox was breached by a New Delhi-based information technology firm named Appin, whose sudden interference in the matters of a faraway tribe was part of a sprawling cyber-mercenary operation that extended across the world, a Reuters investigation found. But it was part of a phenomenon that has drawn interest from law enforcement and intelligence agencies on both sides of the Atlantic. The scandal that roiled the Shinnecocks barely registered beyond the reservation. “We lost the biggest economic opportunity that has come to the tribe in forever,” Randall told Reuters. Handout via REUTERSĪmid the upheaval, the Shinnecocks’ casino hopes faded. The stolen messages, which revealed Randall’s secret negotiations over a potential real estate project, became the subject of an emergency tribal meeting held in July 2012. The first page of a pamphlet containing excerpts from Randall’s private emails that was distributed on the Shinnecock reservation.
