Texas Man Gets 12 Years For LA Court System Cyberattack

Law360 (October 22, 2019, 10:06 PM EDT) -- A Texas man found guilty of orchestrating a phishing attack on the Los Angeles court system, sending 2 million malicious emails and obtaining hundreds of credit card numbers, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

Oriyomi Sadiq Aloba, 33, was also ordered to pay about $47,500 in restitution, the DOJ said in a statement Monday.

Following a three-day jury trial in California federal court in July, Aloba was found guilty of 27 counts that included wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, unauthorized impairment of a protected computer and unauthorized access to a protected computer....