{"id":265,"date":"2015-04-27T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/information-technology\/?p=265"},"modified":"2024-01-30T16:04:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T21:04:17","slug":"member-of-hacking-group-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/member-of-hacking-group-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"In the news: Member of Hacking Group Sentenced to Three Years in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>An excerpt from a recent FBI website update provides details about a court case St. Petersburg College&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/IT_Security_AS_Degree\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I.T. Security<\/a> students might find interesting:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014A member of the SwaggSec hacking group was sentenced today to three years in federal prison for participating in a series of computer attacks that compromised computer systems at DirecTV, Farmers Insurance and the Los Angeles Department of Public Works.<\/p>\n<p>Mario Patrick Chuisano, 32, of Staten Island, New York, who used the online monikers \u201cfame\u201d and \u201cinfam0us,\u201d was sentenced this morning in Los Angeles by United States District Judge S. James Otero.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the prison term, Judge Otero ordered Chuisano to pay $2,662,438.80 in restitution to the three victims.<\/p>\n<p>Chuisano pleaded guilty in June 2014 to conspiracy to intentionally cause damage to a protected computer, as well as to possession of an unregistered firearm, namely a sawed-off shotgun. In addition to the sawed-off shotgun that was discovered in Chuisano\u2019s residence during the execution of a search warrant, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation recovered an unregistered handgun, brass knuckles, and equipment that could be used to manufacture counterfeit credit and debit cards, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hacking Group sentenced\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/losangeles\/press-releases\/2015\/member-of-hacking-group-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison-for-intrusions-into-corporate-and-governmental-computer-systems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the rest of this article on Hacking Group sentencing.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt from a recent FBI website update provides details about a court case St. Petersburg College&#8217;s I.T. 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