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Vigilante who aided Steubenville football website hack to plead guilty

posted onNovember 17, 2016
by l33tdawg

On Wednesday, a federal judge in Kentucky approved Deric Lostutter’s motion to plead guilty to two of four counts in a hacking case that has been stretched out over four years. As a result, he could face years in prison.

In July 2016, prosecutors formally accused Lostutter of hacking a Steubenville, Ohio high school football team website, as alleged retribution for shielding teenager rapists. Lostutter was indicted on four counts, including conspiracy and making a false statement to the FBI.  Presumably, this means that counts two and three, which cite the notorious anti-hacking Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, will likely be dismissed as part of a plea deal.

As Ars has reported previously, the case stretches back to 2012. After The New York Times published an account late that year of a horrific rape involving a teenage girl in Steubenville, Ohio, an online vigilante campaign began. Spearheaded by someone calling himself "KYAnonymous," the campaign targeted local officials whom the vigilantes felt weren't taking the rape investigation seriously because the alleged perpetrators were high school football players.

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