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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Jun 19, 2019, 08:17 PM Jun 2019

Ex-Senate staffer sentenced to 4 years for 'doxing' GOP senators in Kavanaugh confirmation fight

Source: Washington Post

A U.S. judge on Wednesday sentenced a former Democratic Senate staff member to four years in prison for a burglary and hacking campaign that culminated in the single largest known theft of electronic data from the Senate and the posting of private information about Republican senators on the Internet.

Jackson A. Cosko, 27, of the District, pleaded guilty in April to “doxing” the senators after being fired by one senator and growing angry at others while watching the Sept. 27 Senate hearing that addressed sexual assault allegations against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh.

Cosko subsequently doxed five senators by anonymously editing their Wikipedia pages to add phone numbers and home addresses, he admitted to the court. The information was quickly removed after the alterations were discovered, and aides contacted authorities.

In addition to two counts of disclosing restricted personal information and one count each of computer fraud, Cosko confessed to one count each of witness tampering and obstruction of justice by threatening a staffer who caught him on a computer in the office of Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), where he was a computer administrator before he was fired in May 2018.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ex-senate-staffer-sentenced-to-4-years-for-doxing-gop-senators-in-kavanaugh-confirmation-fight/ar-AAD80tX?li=BBnbcA1

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