A 24-year-old hacker is facing as mach as 18 months in jail after attempting to sell access to Energy Department supercomputers to an undercover FBI agent. Wired reports that Andrew James Miller pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and computer fraud, avoiding a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison and $500,000 in fines.
According to court documents, Miller claimed to have gained access to multiple corporate systems, including those of American Express, Adobe, and Google, by hacking into employees' computers and stealing their credentials with a keylogger. After making several successful $1,000 deals with an undercover FBI agent for logins at Domino's Pizza and elsewhere, Miller attempted to sell root access to two supercomputers that are part of the Energy Department's Natural Energy Research Scientific Computing Center for $50,000, which the FBI never actually paid. In chat transcripts, Miller claimed that he got the necessary login credentials by hacking into a Japanese university network.
Read more: The Verge
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