Florida man who tried hacking into Clinton Foundation sentenced to 18 months in prison
Source: Bangor Daily News
Before U.S. intelligence officials began investigating Russian-led cyberattacks in the 2016 presidential election, a Florida man reportedly made 400,000 attempts to hack into the Clinton Foundation’s computer network, claiming he was a “private investigator” researching whether the charity was inadvertently providing funding to Islamist militant groups.
That man, Timothy Sedlak, 44, of Ocoee, Florida, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court Monday to 18 months in prison for attempting to access the global charitable organization’s computers without authorization, and as a result, “recklessly causing damage” to the foundation’s computers, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Sedlak was arrested in September 2015 and pleaded guilty in February. Officials never identified the Manhattan-based global charity that was targeted, but Reuters obtained a court filing that stated federal agents questioned Sedlak about notes they found with references to then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea Clinton.
The court documents, which were later redacted, stated Sedlak told the agents the Clintons “came up in his research,” Reuters reported.
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