Anwar Batson, 29, of London, has been sentenced for fraud and four violations under the Computer Misuse Act of 1990. The man was arrested in May 2017 and initially denied any involvement, claiming that he had been a victim of trolls and hackers, but later pleaded guilty after investigators found on his devices conversations between him and other members of the conspiracy.
Other individuals who launched these types of attacks against Camelot included Daniel Thompson, 27, of Newcastle, and Idris Kayode Akinwunmi, 21, of Birmingham. Thompson and Akinwunmi were sentenced in July 2018 to eight and four months in prison, respectively.
UK National Lottery Hacker Sentenced To Prison
Reality Leigh Winner (born December 4, 1991)[5] is an American former enlisted US Air Force member and NSA translator. In 2018, she was given the longest prison sentence ever imposed for unauthorized release of government information to the media[6] after she leaked an intelligence report about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[7] She was sentenced to five years and three months in federal prison.[8]
On June 3, 2017, while employed by the military contractor Pluribus International Corporation, Winner was arrested on suspicion of leaking an intelligence report about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections from the National Security Agency (NSA) to the news website The Intercept. The report indicated that Russian hackers accessed voter registration rolls in the United States with an email phishing operation, though it was unclear whether any changes had been made.[9]
Concerns were raised that The Intercept's handling of the material exposed her as the source and contributed to her arrest.[10] Twice denied bail, Winner was held at the Lincoln County Jail in Lincolnton, Georgia.[11] On August 23, 2018, Winner was convicted of "removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet" and sentenced to five years and three months in prison as part of a plea deal.[12] She was incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, and released to a transitional facility on June 2, 2021.[13][14][15][16]
On June 21, 2018, Winner asked the court to allow her to change her plea to guilty.[58] On June 26, she pleaded guilty to one count of felony transmission of national defense information.[59][60] Winner's plea agreement with prosecutors called for her to serve five years and three months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.[61] No one has ever received a longer sentence for leaking classified information to a media outlet.[30]
In 2019, Tina Satter staged the play Is This a Room, based on the transcript of Winner's interview by the FBI.[73][74][75] Is This A Room was given its Dutch premiere at the 2019 Noorderzon Festival in Groningen in the Netherlands,[76] and was further presented in New York City at the Vineyard Theatre later that year.[77] Is This A Room ran on Broadway at the Lyceum Theater, opening on October 10, 2021 and closing November 27.[78] Winner was not involved with the production during its initial Off-Broadway run and was unable to see the Broadway production due to still being under house arrest, but spoke with the creative team extensively following her release from prison and video-called into the opening night performance's curtain call.[79] A film adaptation of Is This A Room was announced to be in development in June 2022, with Sydney Sweeney attached to play Reality Winner alongside Josh Hamilton and Marchánt Davis. Tina Satter and James Paul Dallas adapted the script, with Satter directing in her feature debut.[80] The film, Reality, will premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2023.[81]
A US judge has sentenced a Nigerian man to three years and five months in a federal prison after he pleaded guilty to taking part in a business email compromise scam that targeted organisations around the world.
According to an analysis by ZDNEt, the information form the hackers of a data security breach contains names, addresses, mobile numbers, national identification (CNIC) numbers and more. It also appears the the original data security breach took place back in 2013.
Dutch prosecutors asked a judge for a three-year prison sentence for a Dutch politician who doubled as a hacker, by night. He is said to have breached the personal iCloud accounts of more than 100 women, stealing and then leaking sexually explicit photos and videos online.
A federal jury on Friday convicted the former CEO of medical device firm, ArthroCare Corporation, for orchestrating a securities fraud scheme that resulted in shareholder losses of over US$ 750 million, the US Department of Justice said.US Man Faces 25 Years in Prison for Lottery RiggingA former state lottery worker in Iowa faces up to 25 years in prison for masterminding a multi-state lottery rigging scheme, the Associated Press reported Sunday.
Take the case of Lavrick Willocks. This Jamaican man was sentenced in 2018 to six years in prison for his role in a lottery scam that bilked more than 100 mostly older Americans across 31 states out of more than $6 million. His mother, Dahlia Hunter, was also charged. The case was billed as the first major prosecution of a lottery kingpin. 2ff7e9595c
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