LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - Federal prosecutors say a 29-year-old Opelousas computer hacker has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for stealing money, hacking computers and trying to sell information on a hacking forum.
On Wednesday, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Rory Stephen Guidry was sentenced on a single count of obtaining information by computer from a protected computer.
Prosecutors say Guidry pleaded guilty to taking part in July 2014 in an online hacking attack on a computer server in Austin, Texas. At the time, Guidry was living in Liberty Hill, Texas.
Prosecutors say Guidry moved to Opelousas in 2015 where he lived at his grandparents’ home and continued to hack into personal computers. Authorities say he tried to control more than 5,000 computers and sell information to another hacker on Darkode, a hackers’ forum the FBI dismantled in 2015.
Also, prosecutors say he conspired with another person to steal more than $80,000 in bitcoin. Prosecutors say he also obtained information for more than 5,000 credit card accounts.
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