In the United States sued a hacker, hacked a satellite communication system

Computer genius imprisoned for 18 months.

British hacker Sean Caffrey (Sean Caffrey), to get unauthorized access to data satellite communications US Department of defense, received a suspended prison sentence. The hacker pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 months of imprisonment conditionally with a trial period for the same period.

Royal courts of justice Birmingham acknowledged that Caffrey has stolen credentials and email addresses of more than 800 users of the satellite communication system as well as users 30 thousand satellite phones.

According to representatives of the Ministry of defense, to recover systems after an attack of 2014 took about 50 hours and $628 thousand

Caffrey was arrested in March 2015. How, then, according to the National Agency for the fight against crime in the UK (NCA), a hacker hacked into the mobile satellite service, which the Pentagon used to communicate with its employees worldwide. According to the Agency, the arrested confessed to the attack in a message posted on the website Pastebin, and as evidence of hacking published screenshots full names, phone numbers, usernames and e-mail addresses of military personnel.

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