Milleson’s attorney, federal public defender Brendan Hurson, declined to comment Tuesday. Milleson was charged with hacking two unidentified prominent social media accounts in September 2017, which each had “hundreds of thousands of followers,” his plea agreement says. Milleson, 22, pleaded guilty to federal identity theft charges in May and was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday, Kyelle Bryan, a 20-year-old Brooklyn, New York-based hacker who sent police to Milleson’s home, also pleaded guilty, to a charge that will send him to prison for two years as well.Īccording to their plea agreements, investigators said Bryan determined that Milleson went by the hacking name of “Chrikri.” The indictment and plea deal list a handful of anonymous victims, some they described as influential or with large followings. And federal prosecutors say it came about because Milleson, who had been hacking the social media pages and cryptocurrency accounts of influencers and others for years through phishing e-mails, also was ripping off his co-conspirators. There was no such crisis unfolding - the call what was is known as “swatting,” deceiving law enforcement to send a SWAT team by calling in an emergency. Soon after, someone called Baltimore County Police and said he’d shot someone at the Milleson home, and that he was armed and would shoot police if confronted. The person on the other line told him that his son was a hacker named “Chikri” who had stolen US$20,000 (RM83,150) from the caller. In the summer of 2019, the father of 20-year-old Jordan K.
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