Anonymous-Linked Hacktivist Aubrey Cottle Jailed Over Texas GOP Cyberattack
Aubrey Cottle, an Anonymous-linked hacker from Oshawa, has been sentenced to 18 months after he admitted his involvement in a 2021 website defacement attack on the Republican Party of Texas (also called GOP/Grand Old Party). The sentencing was delivered by Justice Joseph Di Luca on Friday in a Newmarket courtroom.
Steven Monacelli, an independent investigative journalist from Texas, was the first to report the breach after finding a statement from the hackers online.
Cottle will remain in custody for another 175 days (nearly six months) because the rest of it he has already spent waiting for his trial. Last week, he pleaded guilty to three charges, including damaging data, getting computer services illegally, and breaking his bail rules by using the internet without supervision.
Attack Details
As per court records, on September 11, 2021, hackers with the Anonymous hacking collective attacked a US-based firm called Epik- a web host (a...
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