The hacking storm that upset US sportsbooks in November has lastly produced a suspect after the federal prosecutors charged 18-year-old Joseph Garrison on Thursday. [Image: Shutterstock.com]
Federal prosecutors for the Division of Justice’s Southern District of New York have charged a Wisconsin teen for the mass November hacking of DraftKings Sportsbook that netted $600,000 from throughout 1,600 accounts.
The DOJ took to Twitter to share the felony costs in opposition to Joseph Garrison, an 18-year-old from Madison, who as soon as boasted “fraud is enjoyable”:
A hacking storm in November disrupted FanDuel, BetMGM, and DraftKings, the sportsbook Garrison and his accomplices allegedly gained entry to and plundered. The audacity of the alleged crime, and the naivety of pondering himself past detection, comes by way of in a dialog regulation enforcement discovered on Garrison’s cell by which he states: “im hooked on see cash in my account . . . im like obsessive about bypassing shit.”
In response to CNBC on Thursday, the November hack didn’t materially harm FanDuel, with the agency stating: “Our safety did its job.”
DraftKings, who in November mentioned it will reimburse its hacked clients to the tune of $300,000, issued a press release Thursday thanking the feds for his or her “immediate and efficient motion” in catching Garrison in February.
Garrison faces a jail sentence that, whereas unlikely, might attain a most of 20 years.
