Romanian gets 5 years in prison for hacking Oregon govt network
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A Romanian national was recently sentenced to fifty-six months in federal prison for engaging in cyberattacks against the Oregon state government network and numerous other U.S. victims. Catalin Dragomir, a forty-six-year-old resident of Constanta, Romania, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated identity theft and one count of obtaining information from a protected computer. The charges carried potential maximum prison terms of five years for computer intrusion and a mandatory two-year term for identity theft, along with a fine of $250,000 and three years of supervised release. As part of the sentence, Dragomir was ordered to forfeit approximately twenty-three Monero cryptocurrency, valued at roughly $8,500. According to court documents, Dragomir gained unauthorized access to the computer system of the Oregon Department of Emergency Management in June 2021, from which he subsequently sold access to a prospective buyer. During this transaction, Dragomir provided the buyer with personally identifiable information, including names, email addresses, dates of birth, and passport numbers, obtained from the compromised device. Furthermore, he sold access to the networks of nearly a dozen other victims across the United States, resulting in total losses estimated at least $250,000. Dragomir was arrested in Romania in November 2024, following coordination between the Justice Department's Office of International Affairs, the Romanian Ministry of Justice, the Directorate for International Law and Judicial Cooperation, and the Romanian Judiciary. He was subsequently extradited to the United States in January 2025. The case was investigated by the FBI's Portland Field Office and prosecuted by the Justice Department's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. This section has previously secured court orders to return over $350 million in victim funds resulting from convictions against more than one hundred eighty cybercriminals and intellectual property offenders. |