A former US Navy IT manager has been sentenced to five years and five months in prison after illegally hacking a database containing personally identifiable information (PII) and selling it on the dark web. 32-year-old Marquis Cooper, of Selma, California, was a chief petty officer in the US Navy’s Seventh Fleet when he opened an account in August 2018 with a company that maintains a PII database for millions of people. The company, which has not been named by the US Department of Justice in its press release about Cooper’s sentencing, restricts access to its database to those organisations…
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