Adrian Lamo
American hacker and threat analyst (1981 - 2018) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Adrián Alfonso Lamo Atwood[2] (February 20, 1981 – March 14, 2018) was an American threat analyst[3][4] and hacker.[5] Lamo first gained media attention for breaking into several high-profile computer networks, including those of The New York Times, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, culminating in his 2003 arrest.[6]
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Adrián Lamo | |
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Born | Adrián Alfonso Lamo Atwood (1981-02-20)February 20, 1981 Malden, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | March 14, 2018(2018-03-14) (aged 37) Wichita, Kansas, U.S. |
Other names | Adrián Lamo, R. Adrián Lamo |
Occupation(s) | Threat analyst, journalist |
Years active | 1999–2018 |
Employer | ProjectVIGILANT |
Known for | Computer hacking, reporting Chelsea Manning to the Army's Criminal Investigation Command |
Notable work | Appeared on Hackers Wanted, We Steal Secrets, Good Morning America, Democracy Now!, Aqui y Ahora, and other media outlets, including cover stories in Information Week and SF Weekly |
Television | TechTV, KCRA Channel 3 News |
Title | Assistant Director for Threat Intelligence |
Criminal penalty | two years' probation, with six months to be served in home detention, and ordered to pay $65,000 in restitution[1] |
Criminal status | In 2004, pleaded guilty to one felony count in SDNY to hacking The New York Times and Microsoft, Oracle and Johnson and Johnson, subsequently informed them, and helped fix their security holes |
Spouse |
Lauren Fisher
(m. 2007; div. 2011) |
Website | about |
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Lamo was best known for reporting U.S. soldier Chelsea Manning to Army criminal investigators in 2010[7] for leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks.[8][9] Lamo died on March 14, 2018, at the age of 37.[10]