10 Year Prison Term Sought for Anonymous Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/11/hammond-sentencing-memo/

By Kevin Poulsen
Threat Level
Wired.com
11.12.13

Anonymous hacktivist Jeremy Hammond should receive the maximum 10 year 
prison term for defacing law enforcement and corporate websites and 
stealing 200 gigabytes of email and 60,000 credit card numbers from a 
private intelligence firm, prosecutors argued in a court filing today.

“Contrary to the picture he paints of himself … Hammond is a computer 
hacking recidivist who, following a federal conviction for computer 
hacking, went on to engage in a massive hacking spree during which he 
caused harm to numerous businesses, individuals, and governments, 
resulting in losses of between $1 million and $2.5 million, and threatened 
the safety of the public at large, especially law enforcement officers and 
their families,” the government wrote in a sentencing memorandum.

Hammond is scheduled for sentencing in New York on Friday before U.S. 
District Judge Loretta Preska. The 28-year-old Chicagoan pleaded guilty 
earlier this year to the keystone attack of the short-lived 
Lulzsec/AntiSec era: a damaging December 2011 intrusion into the servers 
of the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting, Inc., where 
Hammond bulk-deleted files and stole 5 million private email messages, 
which he gave to WikiLeaks.

Unlike most large-scale hacks these days, Hammond’s intrusions were 
strictly not-for-profit. Hammond has a long history of liberal activism 
and direct action, including work for the anti-war group Food Not Bombs. 
In 2006 he was sentenced to two years in custody for hacking the website 
of a right-wing group. While in jail for that hack in 2008, he heard about 
Anonymous and became intrigued, his lawyers said in a court filing this 
month.

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