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Missing in Action

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Missing in Action

Platform: HackTheBox | Category: OSINT | Difficulty: N/A | Author: D3v0o0Nu11 | Date: 2026-02-10

Description

Roland Sanchez from Birmingham, UK is missing. The family are convinced he was kidnapped on a business trip. Can you help?

Solution Approach

Core idea: Identify the weakness from source review or fingerprinting first. Iterate with incremental payloads instead of guessing.

Steps

  1. Based on the description, let us google Roland Sanchez.

  2. Actually we can make it more specific since there's more people named the same. let us search Roland Sanchez Birmingham UK.

  3. Let us jump to the linkedin.

4 Got nothing, let us google the company he works at.

  1. Open the twitter link.

  2. Next, i tried to check the twitter account to see if we can get any clues.

  3. Actually got one here.

  4. Let us specify our search on google.

foursquareguide "Roland Sanchez"
  1. Got the flag!

Flag

REDACTED

Lessons Learned

  1. Identify the weakness from source review or fingerprinting first.
  2. Iterate with incremental payloads instead of guessing.
  3. Reuse the same pattern in future engagements.