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A pirate-website operator named Joshua Streit was charged with hacking into Main League Baseball (MLB) laptop programs and making an attempt to extort $150,000 from the league by threatening to publicize safety vulnerabilities, the US Division of Justice introduced yesterday.
Streit additionally “is alleged to have illegally streamed sports activities content material on-line from MLB, the NHL, the NBA, and the NFL for his personal private revenue,” the announcement stated. Streit was charged in US District Courtroom for the Southern District of New York with wire fraud, illicit digital transmission, sending interstate threats with the intent to extort, and two counts of laptop intrusion. The utmost potential sentences for these counts add as much as 37 years in jail, together with 20 years for wire fraud, although the press launch famous that “most potential sentences on this case are prescribed by Congress and are offered right here for informational functions solely, as any sentencing of the defendant might be decided by the choose.”
Streit is a 30-year-old from Minnesota who’s also called Josh Brody. The pirate streaming web site that he allegedly ran was referred to as HeheStreams and operated from roughly 2017 to August 2021.
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