Jeremy Hammond

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Jeremy Hammond (2013)

Jeremy Hammond (born January 8, 1985 ) is an American political activist and musician from Chicago . He was part of the LulzSec group and was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in 2013 for the 2011 attack on the US information service provider Stratfor .

Earlier life

Jeremy Hammond programmed computer games in QBasic at the age of 8 ; at 13 he developed databases . He attended Glenbard East High School and became a peace activist there. Its director there described him as “ old beyond his years ” (roughly: ready for his age). The University of Illinois at Chicago expelled the scholarship holder from the institute after he pointed out security holes in the local computer network. He later worked as a web designer and was an employee at the help desk of Apple and made with his twin brother music in the ska group "Dirty Surgeon Insurgency"

activism

Hammond took part in a large number of political activities that were often viewed as highly polarized by the general public and repeatedly pushed into illegality. He was convicted of possession of intoxicants, occupations in the wake of the Occupy movement, demonstrations against fascism and confrontational actions against the Holocaust denier David Irving , as well as cybercrime .

HackThisSite

At the age of 18 he founded the website “HackThisSite”, a platform for exchanging and learning about topics and aspects relating to computer security with a reach of around 2.5 million page views and 110,000 members in the first two years. In September 2013, the number of users was over 1.8 million.

Protest warrior

The conservative group Protest Warrior was a network for the defamation of opponents of the war who took a public position against the second Iraq war . Hammond stole information from the website's database, including user credit card information. Although the defense presented a political motivation, the court argued mainly on the financial potential of the stolen cards. The verdict was set at $ 500 for each of the 5,000 credit cards, and a loss of $ 2.5 million was recorded even though no card was charged. In December 2006, he was sentenced to two years in prison.

Stratfor

On March 5, 2012, Hammond was arrested by the FBI. Hammond admitted to breaking into servers of the geopolitical think tank Stratfor in 2011 , copying five million emails there and passing them on to Wikileaks . On November 15, 2013, despite a confession, he was sentenced to ten years in prison by a federal court in New York for hacker attacks. Wikileaks immediately announced the publication of all remaining Stratfor data. In the summer of 2014 it turned out that he had been given the information necessary for the hack by Hector Xavier Monsegur , who was also active at Lulzsec under the pseudonym "Sabu" , but also an FBI informant.

The German Wau Holland Foundation collects donations to support him as part of its civil courage project.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Hacktivist , Chicagomagazine website. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  2. ^ Chicago hacking suspect a genius without wisdom, mom says , Chicago Tribune website. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  3. ↑ But Can He Hack Prison? , Chicagoreader.com website. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  4. ↑ Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond admits to Hack von Stratfor: "I did what I thought was right." , netzpolitik.org , accessed November 17, 2013.
  5. ^ Anonymous activist Hammond: Ten years imprisonment for the Stratfor hacker , Der Spiegel , November 15, 2013
  6. ↑ Now that Jeremy Hammond has been sentenced, we will shortly release all remaining Stratfor files , WikiLeaks on Facebook
  7. ↑ Dell Cameron: How an FBI informant orchestrated the Stratfor hack. In: The Daily Dot. June 5, 2014, accessed June 6, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Donations for civil courage - Wau Holland Foundation. Wau Holland Foundation, accessed February 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hammond, Jeremy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political activist and musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1985