Texas Man Facing 350 Years In Prison For Hacking Into L.A. Superior Court, Sending 2 Million Phishing Emails
LAPPL News Watch
August 1, 2019
A Texas man was found guilty Thursday of hacking into the Los Angeles Superior Court computer system and then using it to send about 2 million phishing emails, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
A jury found 33-year-old Oriyomi Sadiq Aloba guilty of 27 federal criminal charges, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, attempted wire fraud, unauthorized impairment of a protected computer, unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information and aggravated identity theft, authorities said.
He faces a statutory maximum sentence of more than 350 years in federal prison, according to the Department of Justice.
Aloba and his co-conspirators gained access to an employee’s email account in 2017 and then sent out emails with a link to a phishing website disguised as a Dropbox link, and asked employees for email addresses and passwords, authorities said.
Thousands of employees gave out their email credentials to the hacker, who then used them to send out millions of phishing emails, the DOJ said.
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