Security News > 2023 > October > Ex-Navy IT head gets 5 years for selling people’s data on darkweb
Marquis Hooper, a former U.S. Navy IT manager, has received a sentence of five years and five months in prison for illegally obtaining US citizens' personally identifiable information and selling it on the dark web.
According to information contained in the indictment, Hooper opened an online account with a company maintaining a database containing the PII of millions of people in August 2018.
The two illegally obtained the sensitive personal information of 9,000 people and subsequently sold the data on the dark web in exchange for Bitcoin payments valued at around $160,000 at the time.
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