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Florida man pleads guilty in attempted hacking of Clinton Foundation

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Dissent

Nate Raymond and Nathan Layne report:

A Florida man pleaded guilty in a case stemming from an attempted hacking of the Clinton Foundation on Thursday, months after he was sentenced to 42 years in prison in the wake of child pornography discovered on his computers during the probe.

Timothy Sedlak, 43, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to attempting to access protected computers without authorization. Prosecutors accused him of trying to gain access to an unnamed New York-based charitable organization’s network.

Read more on Reuters.


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