Hacker pleads guilty after targeted DOE Supercomputers
The US hacker caught after trying to sell Department of Energy supercomputer logins to an undercover FBI agent has pleaded guilty in a deal that could see him go to jail for up to 18 months.
The 24-year-old hacker, Pennsylvania man Andrew James Miller, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and computer fraud to cut his potential sentence down from 15 years in prison.
Miller was indicted for allegedly remotely hacking into computer networks that belonged to Massachusetts-based RNK Telecommunications Inc.; Colorado-based advertising agency Crispin Porter and Bogusky Inc.; the University of Massachusetts; U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facilities; and other institutions and companies, according to the Justice Department.
Wired also said Miller bragged to FBI agents online that he had also broken into corporate servers at American Express, Yahoo, Google, Adobe, WordPress and other companies and universities.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Boston said Miller got his hands on log-in credentials to the compromised computers and he and his co-conspirators sold access to the back doors, as well as other log-in credentials. The access Miller and his co-conspirators sold allowed unauthorized people to access various commercial, education and government computer networks, it said.
Miller is scheduled for sentencing Nov. 19. According to the U.S. attorney in Boston, the maximum penalty for the conspiracy count is five years in prison. One of the computer intrusion counts carries a maximum penalty of five years and the other, involving intentional damage to a private computer, carries a maximum of 10 years.
The 24-year-old hacker, Pennsylvania man Andrew James Miller, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and computer fraud to cut his potential sentence down from 15 years in prison.
Miller was indicted for allegedly remotely hacking into computer networks that belonged to Massachusetts-based RNK Telecommunications Inc.; Colorado-based advertising agency Crispin Porter and Bogusky Inc.; the University of Massachusetts; U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facilities; and other institutions and companies, according to the Justice Department.
Wired also said Miller bragged to FBI agents online that he had also broken into corporate servers at American Express, Yahoo, Google, Adobe, WordPress and other companies and universities.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Boston said Miller got his hands on log-in credentials to the compromised computers and he and his co-conspirators sold access to the back doors, as well as other log-in credentials. The access Miller and his co-conspirators sold allowed unauthorized people to access various commercial, education and government computer networks, it said.
Miller is scheduled for sentencing Nov. 19. According to the U.S. attorney in Boston, the maximum penalty for the conspiracy count is five years in prison. One of the computer intrusion counts carries a maximum penalty of five years and the other, involving intentional damage to a private computer, carries a maximum of 10 years.
Hacker pleads guilty after targeted DOE Supercomputers
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