| Title | Barrett Brown Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for 'Re-Sharing Link to Hacked Material' | |
| Date | Sunday January 25 2015, @07:25AM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the it's-nice-to-share dept. | ||
From The Hacker News (not to be confused with Hacker News ;) ):
Barrett Brown, a journalist [who] formerly served as an unofficial spokesman for the hacktivist collective Anonymous, was sentenced Thursday to over five years in prison, after pleading guilty to federal charges of "transmitting a threat in interstate commerce," "for interfering with the execution of a search warrant," and to being "accessory after the fact in the unauthorized access to a protected computer."
Brown was arrested in 2012 and nailed with 12 cyber crime charges, including a fraud charge for spreading around the hyperlink to an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channel where Anonymous members were distributing stolen information from the hack, including credit card details.
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