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Illinois Hacker Sentenced for Exploiting Snapchat Accounts

A 26-year-old Illinois man, Kyle Svara, has been sentenced to 76 months in prison for hacking over 750 Snapchat accounts, using social engineering tactics to phish access codes and trading stolen images online. He'll also face three years of supervised release after serving his time.

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DraftKings hacker sentenced to 18 months for $600,000 cyberattack

Meet Nathan Austad, a 21-year-old from Minnesota who pleaded guilty to masterminding a massive $600,000 cyberattack on DraftKings, compromising nearly 60,000 customer accounts with a clever alias and a crew of co-conspirators. He'll be serving 18 months for his role in the hack, which exploited weak passwords and left thousands of customers vulnerable.

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