Damn dude.
This kid is going to get one hefty sentence. This is identity theft of an extremely serious degree, and could even be considered an act of terrorism considering he exfilitrated the personal data of presidents, ex presidents and members of congress.
There is a 100% chance that they are going to make an example of this kid, I'm expecting 5-10 years in prison at the very least.
I guess the $1 million bounty Justin Sun put on his head was enough to send people on an epic man(boy?)hunt.
Let's see if he can social engineer his way out of jail.
These millennials, how could they be so stupid? This kind of thing, you cannot absolutely go against your own country, even with the infamous "7 proxy" whatever stupid media culture portrays.
If they were, i don't know Russians, Chinese, Iranians or North Koreans, places where America can't reach, i would get it. But Americans against Americans?; well what can i say. Just breaching an American company server is bad enough, lets ignore the many affected individuals all right and powerful enough to permanently ruin this kid's life... Its suicidal, i don't think the common black hat is dumb enough for this.
And on top of that there was that juicy bounty, which would lure the others. Yup, not gonna end good. Lets see how many more are involved, so in the end it was a bunch of kids for the lulz. Unless they recruit him or something, which i bet some of them dream of, but i doubt it its not that stage in history anymore. The State has plenty of skilled employees already, even the military, for "cyber" operations. Those romantic days of "do a great hack and get hired" are long gone.
5 to 10 years really sounds small for America. Unless he does a lot of negotiation giving names, etc. I remember how Manning got busted for trusting Lamo who in turn was another idiot turned informant...
If they did this against China, Wechat, TikTok whatever, they would probably be getting a medal in the Whitehouse instead (and recruitment probably)