In 2012, Steubenville (Ohio) high school's football game squad players gang-raped an unconscious teenage daughter from West Virginia together with took photographs of the sexual assault.
In Dec 2012, a fellow member of the hacker collective Anonymous hacked into the Steubenville High School football game fan website Roll Red Roll together with leaked around testify of the rape, including a video taken together with shared past times the crime's perpetrators inward which they joked almost the sexual assault.
The hack exposed data almost the gang rape past times 2 football game squad players — Trent Mays together with Ma’lik Richmond, both xvi at the fourth dimension of the offense — who were eventually convicted together with sentenced inward 2013 to 2 together with i years behind bars, respectively, but remove keep since been released.
In 2013, the FBI raided the habitation of Deric Lostutter — Anonymous member, also known online equally "KYAnonymous" — together with seized 2 laptops, flash drives, CD's, an external hard-drive, prison theater cellular telephone phones together with an XBox, together with arrested him.
Lostutter, a 29-year-old human from Winchester, pleaded guilty inward federal courtroom inward Kentucky on Midweek to i count of conspiring to illegally interruption into the computers to depict attending to the Steubenville rape illustration without ascendancy together with i count of lying to an FBI agent.
What's weird? The hacker is facing a longer prison theater term than the rapists.
Lostutter said he hacked into the site amongst simply an intention to expose data almost the gang rape. He said inward courtroom Wednesday, "We wanted to stand upwards up for a daughter who had no voice, together with nosotros went almost it the incorrect way," according to WTVQ.
However, prosecutors alleged that Lostutter participated inward an online displace against the schoolhouse inward belatedly 2012 nether the banner of Anonymous. They also said Lostutter used the online alias KYAnonymous to conspire online amongst other hacktivists inward Dec 2012.
According to prosecutors, the finish was to intimidate together with harass an private who ran Roll Red Roll, the website dedicated to the football game team. Lostutter gained unauthorized access to the target's website together with leaked its owner's personal emails online.
There's no incertitude that the functioning against the schoolhouse website helped pick out the Steubenville rape illustration into the national spotlight. But Lostutter was questioned over his participation afterward the displace got off the ground.
"Lostutter filmed a video wearing a mask together with wrote a manifesto, which was both posted on the website to harass together with intimidate people, together with to hit publicity for Lostutter together with [Noah] McHugh's online identities," said the protectors.
"Specifically, the messages threatened to expose personal identifying data of Steubenville High School students, together with made faux claims that the administrator of the fan website was involved inward nipper pornography together with directed a 'rape crew.'"Lostutter faces a maximum judgement of 10 years inward prison theater together with $250,000 inward fines. He is scheduled to look earlier the guess for sentencing on March 8, 2017. His defense strength did non comment on the plea agreement.
Noah McHugh, co-conspirator of Lostutter, was pleaded guilty inward September to hacking the Steubenville website. He is slated to hold upwards sentenced inward December.
