The hacker who exposed Hillary Clinton for using an unauthorized private email account as secretary of state was sentenced by a federal court on Thursday to more than four years in prison.
Romanian hacker Marcel Lazar, better known as “Guccifer,” was extradited from his home country earlier this year in order to face U.S. charges for his role in hacking the email accounts of former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal, among others. Guccifer pled guilty on charges of aggravated identity theft and unauthorized access to a protected computer.
James Cacheris, the federal judge who handed down the sentence on Thursday in Alexandria, Va., for some reason also decided to offer a warning that recent cyber attacks on Democratic Party officials, which have been linked to the Russian government, were an example of how hackers are trying to subvert “the very machinery of our democracy.”
Romania is reportedly seeking Guccifer’s return to the country so he can finish serving a seven-year prison sentence there on hacking-related charges.
Guccifer helped expose Hillary use of a private email account by releasing emails obtained from the account of her longtime confidant Sidney Blumenthal. The emails, which were first published by Gawker, revealed that Hillary maintained a close relationship with Blumenthal after the Obama administration refused to offer him a job.
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