Security News > 2020 > January > Lottery hacker gets 9 months for his £5 cut of the loot

Last week, 29-year-old Anwar Batson from London, who supplied his criminal buddies with the brute-force, automated password-guessing, Dark Web-delivered tool behind the credential-stuffing attack - a hacking tool called Sentry MBA - was sentenced to up to nine months in jail.

Batson, using the chat handle "Rosegold," discussed "Config-file" this and "How do we use Sentry MBA to hack the National Lottery website" that with others online, including Idris Akinwunmi and Daniel Thompson: two hackers who were jailed in July 2018 for the cyberattack.

The crooks had agreed that in exchange for sending them Sentry MBA, Batson would get a cut of the loot.

Mr Batson would send [Akinwunmi] the Sentry MBA and that whatever Mr Akinwunmi did with it, he would get a cut.

On them, investigators found a copy of the same chat that they'd discovered on Akinwunmi's machines, as well as evidence that Batson had accessed Dr. Bentley's account using Sentry MBA. Who cares how little the crooks made? Not Camelot, the outfit that runs the lottery.

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