Security News > 2020 > January > National Lottery Sentry MBA hacker gets 9 months in jail after swiping just £5
A Londoner who hacked the National Lottery using Sentry MBA and made off with just £5 will spend up to nine months in prison for his crimes.
Anwar Batson, 29, of Lancaster Road in London's Notting Hill, was part of a group of miscreants who hacked into the National Lottery website in 2016.
Batson, Crown prosecutor Suki Dhadda told Southwark Crown Court this morning, downloaded Sentry MBA and joined a chat group discussing and swapping configuration files for the software.
Using the chat handle "Rosegold", Batson discussed with others, including Idris Akinwunmi and Daniel Thompson, the details of those config files and how to deploy Sentry MBA against the Lottery website.
Searches of his devices, including two digital storage sticks, revealed a copy of the same chat that investigators found on Akinwunmi's machines as well as evidence that Batson had accessed Dr Bentley's account using Sentry MBA. Mitigating his client's crimes, Kersh took the judge to a character reference given to the court by Batson's employer.