Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted October 29, 2019 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted October 29, 2019 ach Gibson/AP A former Democratic Senate staffer was sentenced to two years of probation this week for helping another onetime staff member break into a Senate office late at night to hack government computers. Their actions exposed the private information of five Republican senators, in an act of retaliation for their support of Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination. Federal prosecutors say Samantha Davis, 24, gave her ex-boyfriend the keys to the Senate office where she worked so he could extract personal information about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. Rand Paul, Sen. Orrin Hatch and Sen. Mike Lee. Davis originally denied to federal agents that she had any knowledge of the doxxing, but she later admitted to having played a role, federal authorities wrote in a sentencing memorandum. Both Davis and her ex-boyfriend, Jackson Cosko, 27, had worked for Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H. Authorities say Davis allowed Cosko to take her office keys, and that on several occasions, he sneaked into Hassan's office at night, accessed Senate computers and then edited the Wikipedia pages of Republican senators to publish their home addresses, cellphone numbers and other personal information. Prosecutors said Cosko's Senate break-ins were originally intended to embarrass and target his former colleagues in Hassan's office. After Cosko was fired for bad performance as a systems administrator on Hassan's staff in May 2018, he became upset, believing his termination was unjust, prosecutors said. "There is evidence that the defendant considered various ways of using the stolen data to extort Senator Hassan's office, in exchange for a positive employment reference," prosecutors wrote in court papers. But months later, as Cosko watched the Kavanaugh hearings, he decided to instead dox Republican senators who backed the Supreme Court Justice who was accused of sexual misconduct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DriftBusta Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Can’t believe that didn’t get jail time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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