19-Year-Old Accused of Largest Child Data Breach in US Agrees To Plead Guilty To Federal Charges (nbcnews.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/21/026213/19-year-old-accused-of-largest-child-data-breach-in-us-agrees-to-plead-guilty-to-federal-charges
- Source link: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/alleged-hacker-largest-breach-us-childrens-data-agrees-plead-guilty-rcna207963
> Matthew Lane, 19, of Worcester County, Massachusetts, signed a plea agreement related to charges [1]connected to a major hack on an educational technology company last year, as well as another company, according to court documents published Tuesday.
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> While the documents refer to the education company only as "Victim-2" and the U.S. attorney's office declined to name the victim, a person familiar with the matter told NBC News that it is PowerSchool. The hack of PowerSchool last year is believed to be the largest breach of American children's sensitive data to date.
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> According to his plea agreement, Lane admitted obtaining information from a protected computer and aggravated identity theft and agreed not to challenge a prison sentence shorter than nine years and four months. He got access simply by trying an employee's stolen username and password combination, the complaint says, echoing a private third-party assessment of the incident previously reported by NBC News.
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/alleged-hacker-largest-breach-us-childrens-data-agrees-plead-guilty-rcna207963
Nine fucking years in prison? (Score:3)
It's going to cost us a little over a million dollars to throw this 19-year-old in prison. It would be child's Play to prevent him from committing any further crimes just by putting him under probation.
And let's not forget we organize and structure our prisons so that the prisoners can inflict various forms of torture on each other that we're to squeamish to do ourselves.
It's a complete waste of money covered in a thick mess of cruelty for its own sake. But you can bet your ass anyone who suggests any alternative is basically dead to half the country. Got to be tough on crime right?
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Prisons a weird institution and it can kinda go either way how it affects people.
Back in the early 90s two local kids who I knew (lived on the same street) committed a terrible assault on some other kid, causing serious brain damage. One stayed with the kid trying to give him cpr until the cops/ambulance arived, the other fled. Both where charged and did about a year of prison each (The one who stayed with the victim got a couple months off for demonstrated remorse).
When they got out. One was completely sho
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Who the hell said anything about (Score:2)
How it affects people?
My complaint is is we are going to spend a million dollars locking up this kid and we could easily stop him from committing any other crimes that he is at all likely to commit. That's a million dollars of my money, my taxpayer dollars so that somebody can get a boner watching tough on crime bullshit.
Meanwhile we are going to put them through the ringer inflicting literal torture but we don't even have the fucking balls to do it ourselves so we set it up so that violent and craz
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I get that. Probation would probably be good enough for this kid. That could probably be generalized for all non-violent people who are in jail right now.
Re: Nine fucking years in prison? (Score:1)
"Got to be tough on crime right?" Right.
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On one hand America keeps more people in prison than any other country in the world, it seems. That does not seem to be consistent with a Free Country. On the other hand, this person should have had some education in Ethics, and he obviously did not, so off to Jail for him, and good riddance.
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If an executive at the company had done the same thing as Matthew Lane, would you argue that the executive only deserves probation?
Re: Nine fucking years in prison? (Score:2)
If an executive used stolen credentials to access data and leak it, I would argue a larger punishment is warranted. They would have no excuse for not knowing the damage they are causing and the risks to the victims involved.
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> It's going to cost us a little over a million dollars to throw this 19-year-old in prison.
Justice isn't about achieving some ROI.
> And let's not forget we organize and structure our prisons so that the prisoners can inflict various forms of torture on each other that we're to squeamish to do ourselves.
Unless the prison's management is insane, this guy is going to spend the next 9 plus years in solitary. Put him anywhere near gen pop and he'll end up dead. Prisoners have a pretty strict code of ethics when it comes to their crimes and victims. Children are a definite no-go.
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How do you propose a school functions without knowing the identity of their students?
At a minimum, they require identifying information for every child and their legal guardians. Names, addresses, dates of birth.