Security News > 2020 > November > Hacker Closing Out Prison Sentence in Chicago Halfway House
Computer hacker Jeremy Hammond, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence for breaking into computer systems of security firms and law-enforcement agencies, will serve out the remainder of his term in a Chicago halfway house, a U.S. Bureau of Prison spokesman said Wednesday.
The FBI arrested Hammond, who prosecutors called a hacking "Recidivist," during a 2012 raid on his Chicago home after getting the cooperation of Hector Xavier Monsegur, a hacker who helped law enforcement infiltrate the hacking movement "Anonymous," which led to the conviction of eight hackers.
"Raised in the Chicago suburb of Glendale Heights, Hammond described himself as a :nonconformist, anti-authority" kid who at 8, tried to design video games.
He started the University of Illinois at Chicago with a full scholarship, but was kicked out after hacking into the university's computer science department website and telling administrators about the vulnerability.
In a Tuesday tweet, the Jeremy Hammond Support Committee expressed joy that Hammond had been released from prison.