Hacker sentenced to 18 months for credential stuffing attack on 60,000 betting accounts
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Sinisa Markovic
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A 21-year-old hacker known as "Snoopy" (Nathan Austad) was sentenced to 18 months in prison for a credential stuffing attack that compromised approximately 60,000 accounts on a fantasy sports and betting website (DraftKings) in November 2022. He and his co-conspirators used usernames and passwords stolen from previous data breaches to gain unauthorized access, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. Austad pleaded guilty in December 2025 to one count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion.
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· 3 pulledA 21-year-old man known online as 'Snoopy' was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in a scheme that hacked user accounts on a fantasy sports and betting website and sold access to them, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses.
Nathan Austad of Farmington, Minnesota, pleaded guilty in December 2025 to one count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion.
According to prosecutors, Austad and his co-conspirators launched a credential stuffing attack against the betting website in November 2022, using usernames and passwords stolen in previous data breaches to gain unauthorized access.
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