Jeremy Hammond Cyberjihad Gets Him 10 Years Prison
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-chicago-hacker-sentenced-20131115,0,2826104.story?page=1
admitted in May to hacking into Strategic Forecasting Inc in December 2011, an attack his lawyers contend was driven by concern about the role of private firms in gathering intelligence domestically and abroad...the hack of Austin, Texas-based Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor, resulted in the theft of 60,000 credit card numbers and records for 860,000 clients, which were then uploaded online.
... exposed a host of secret operations Stratfor was conducting. Emails showed the U.S. government was paying the company to keep tabs on the Occupy movement, for example. Stratfor also was spying on behalf of Dow Chemical Co., monitoring protesters of the 1984 chemical plant disaster in Bhopal, India, which killed thousands in India and is considered to be the worst workplace tragedy ever.
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