Jesse Cipf, an American citizen, sentenced to seven years in prison, committed a unique and frankly insatiable act, trying to avoid the payment of alimony for the child's maintenance.
39-year-old Jesse Cipf from Kentucky was deceitfully accessed to the registration system of deaths in Hawaii and created a fake file there about his death.
Kipf filled the form of death certificate, appointing himself a medical witness in this case.
He assigned the document by a digital signature of a doctor from another state, specifying his name, position and license number - all this data of the CIPF was previously stolen. As a result, in many federal databases, he became dead.
After that, the hacker decided to earn money in this way. He penetrated the registration systems of other state deaths, using credentials stolen from other doctors and employees, and from there - into government and corporate networks, and then tried to sell access on the Internet.
It was found that he sold stolen databases containing private information, such as social insurance numbers, other cybercrime in Darknet.
Darknet is a part of the Internet available only through special software that hides the browser identification data. There are many Darknet River, where cybercriminals sell stolen data or access to broken IT systems.
According to the investigation, KIPF sold data to international buyers, including people from Algeria, Russia and Ukraine.
In court, he pleaded guilty, noting that he had committed the crime in part in order to avoid paying alimony to his ex -wife, who is guilty of more than $ 100,000.
"This scheme was cynical and destructive, partially based on a difficult goal: to avoid the obligations to pay alimony," - said the prosecutor in the eastern district Kentucky Carlton S. Schier IV.
Kipf was sentenced to seven years in prison for computer fraud and theft of personal data.
According to US law, it is obliged to serve at least 85% of its term.
After his release, law enforcement agencies will be closely observed for three years.
The total amount of damage that the offender has caused state and corporate computer systems together with unpaid alimony is estimated at about $ 196,000.
