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I think the big chunk of the penalty is because he lied to the secret service agents rather than the company damage, that being said, why would the secret servi

I think the big chunk of the penalty is because he lied to the secret service agents rather than the company damage, that being said, why would the secret service investigate a private sector company incident? At most, it should be the FBI afaik

Aurornis 3y ago
Lying to federal agents to cover up a crime is definitely a big part of the penalty. He got caught and kept digging himself into more crimes. I’m also surprised the secret service was involved. I wonder if they suspected foreign involvement or considered it a matter of national security because it was an attack on banking infrastructure?
- acdha 3y ago
  The USSS started as the Treasury Department’s anti-counterfeiting enforcement agency and only later expanded into protecting lawmakers. They still have a mission to protect the financial systems of the United States and I’d imagine anything involving bank IT integrity involves a call for them.
dragonwriter 3y ago
> why would the secret service investigate a private sector company incident? At most, it should be the FBI afaik The Secret Service started out as an anti-counterfeiting service, expanded into VIP protection, general national financial system security, and for a while general cybercrime, though the latter (outside of where it touched on the other Secret Sevice functions) fell away. “We also protect the integrity of our currency and investigate crimes against the U.S. financial system committed by criminals around the world and in cyberspace.” https://www.secretservice.gov/about/overview https://www.secretservice.gov/about/overview
Projectiboga 3y ago
The Secret Service also does anything with hacking the telecom system, wired and wireless and it looks like they also do some of the internet and infrastructure stuff.
yencabulator 3y ago
The ex-employer was a bank, that might change things. Also: > impersonated other bank employees by opening sessions in their names
dekhn 3y ago
BTW, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._United_States_Secret_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._U...
ja27 3y ago
On the federal sentencing guidelines, the base offense level for that is 6 (0-6 months), which is way lower than the fraud's level would end up given the dollar amount.

Aurornis 3y ago

Lying to federal agents to cover up a crime is definitely a big part of the penalty. He got caught and kept digging himself into more crimes. I’m also surprised the secret service was involved. I wonder if they suspected foreign involvement or considered it a matter of national security because it was an attack on banking infrastructure?

acdha 3y ago
The USSS started as the Treasury Department’s anti-counterfeiting enforcement agency and only later expanded into protecting lawmakers. They still have a mission to protect the financial systems of the United States and I’d imagine anything involving bank IT integrity involves a call for them.

dragonwriter 3y ago

> why would the secret service investigate a private sector company incident? At most, it should be the FBI afaik The Secret Service started out as an anti-counterfeiting service, expanded into VIP protection, general national financial system security, and for a while general cybercrime, though the latter (outside of where it touched on the other Secret Sevice functions) fell away. “We also protect the integrity of our currency and investigate crimes against the U.S. financial system committed by criminals around the world and in cyberspace.” https://www.secretservice.gov/about/overview https://www.secretservice.gov/about/overview

Projectiboga 3y ago

The Secret Service also does anything with hacking the telecom system, wired and wireless and it looks like they also do some of the internet and infrastructure stuff.

yencabulator 3y ago

The ex-employer was a bank, that might change things. Also: > impersonated other bank employees by opening sessions in their names

dekhn 3y ago

BTW, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._United_States_Secret_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._U...

ja27 3y ago

On the federal sentencing guidelines, the base offense level for that is 6 (0-6 months), which is way lower than the fraud's level would end up given the dollar amount.