Stratfor hacker sentenced to 10 years in prison

Found on The Inquirer on Monday, 18 November 2013
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"I have already spent 15 months in prison. For several weeks of that time I have been held in solitary confinement. I have been denied visits and phone calls with my family and friends. This plea agreement spares me, my family, and my community a repeat of this grinding process."

"It is kind of funny that here they are sentencing me for hacking Stratfor, but at the same time as I was doing that an FBI informant was suggesting to me foreign targets to hit," he told the newspaper. "So you have to wonder how much they really care about protecting the security of websites."

He would have had it easier if he just killed someone instead.