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Hacker sentenced to 29 months in devious Photobucket image plot

Brandon Bourret, 41, pleaded guilty to hacking charges in April. He sold code to blackmailers and others to scan Photobucket’s 10 billion images. Bourret also forfeited more than $49,000 in proceeds from the sale of “PhotoFucket” Bourret was accused of selling the app to at least 1,739 customers who accessed the accounts of nearly 2 million people. A co-defendant, Athanasios Andrianakis, of Sunnyvale, was handed 15 months of home detention.”]

Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/hacker-sentenced-to-29-months-in-devious-photobucket-image-plot/

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