The hacking grouping behind a serial of embarrassing hacks that targeted personal electronic mail accounts of senior officials at the FBI, the CIA, together with the White House, with other the States federal agencies inwards 2015.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 fellow member of Crackas With Attitude, who was arrested final twelvemonth inwards September, has straight off been sentenced to v years inwards federal prison.
Justin Liverman, a 25-year-old human being from Morehead City, who was known nether the online alias "D3F4ULT," was arrested final year along with around other fellow member of the group—Andrew Otto Boggs, 23, of North Wilkesboro, who allegedly used the grip "INCURSIO."
The brace hacked into multiple regime organizations betwixt Oct 2015 together with Feb 2016. Boggs was sentenced to ii years inwards prison theatre on June 30, 2017, for his role.
Liverman pleaded guilty on Jan six this twelvemonth to conspiracy to hack U.S. regime computers together with accounts together with was sentenced to 5 years inwards prison theatre on Friday. He volition besides live on forced to pay $145,000 inwards restitution.
According to the plea agreement, "beginning inwards Nov 2015, Liverman conspired to endeavor to intimidate together with harass U.S. officials together with their families past times gaining unauthorized access to victims’ online accounts, with other things."
"Liverman publicly posted online documents together with personal information unlawfully obtained from a victim's personal account; sent threatening text messages to the same victim's cellphone; together with paid an unlawful 'phonebombing' service to telephone telephone the victim repeatedly with a threatening message," U.S. prosecutors inwards the Eastern District Court of Virginia said.
Crackas With Attitude targeted to a greater extent than than 10 U.S. regime officials including the next together with caused to a greater extent than than $1.5 1000000 inwards losses to victims:
- Hacked into the AOL electronic mail of quondam CIA manager John Brennan together with released personal details.
- Hacked into the personal emails together with telephone accounts of the quondam US spy primary James Clapper.
- Broke into the AOL electronic mail of the Ex FBI Deputy Director Mark Giuliano.
The hacking grouping besides leaked the personal details of 31,000 regime agents belonging to close 20,000 FBI agents, 9,000 Department of Homeland Security officers, together with around release of DoJ staffers.
According to the federal officials, the hacking grouping used social engineering to play a joke on victims into revealing their trace of piece of job concern human relationship numbers, passwords, together with other sensitive details, using which they gained access to their accounts.
However, a 17-year-old British teenager, who is known equally CRACKA together with the leader of the "Crackas With Attitude" hacking group, is genuinely responsible for carrying out the higher upwardly attacks. His prosecution is nonetheless ongoing inwards the United Kingdom.
