Adrian Lamo
Adrián Lamo | |
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Lamo c. 2001 | |
| Born | Adrián Alfonso Lamo Atwood February 20, 1981 Malden, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | March 14, 2018 (aged 37) Wichita, Kansas, U.S. |
| Other names | Adrián Lamo, R. Adrián Lamo |
| Occupation(s) | Threat analyst, journalist |
| Years active | 1999–2018 |
| Employer | ProjectVIGILANT |
| Known for | Computer hacking, reporting Chelsea Manning to the Army's Criminal Investigation Command |
| Notable work | Appeared on Hackers Wanted, We Steal Secrets, Good Morning America, Democracy Now!, Aqui y Ahora, and other media outlets, including cover stories in Information Week and SF Weekly |
| Television | TechTV, KCRA Channel 3 News |
| Title | Assistant Director for Threat Intelligence |
| Criminal penalty | two years' probation, with six months to be served in home detention, and ordered to pay $65,000 in restitution |
| Criminal status | In 2004, pleaded guilty to one felony count in SDNY to hacking The New York Times and Microsoft, Oracle and Johnson and Johnson, subsequently informed them, and helped fix their security holes |
| Spouse |
Lauren Fisher
(m. 2007; div. 2011) |
| Website | about |
Adrián Alfonso Lamo Atwood (February 20, 1981 – March 14, 2018) was an American threat analyst and hacker. Lamo first gained media attention for breaking into several high-profile computer networks, including those of The New York Times, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, culminating in his 2003 arrest.
Lamo was best known for reporting U.S. soldier Chelsea Manning to Army criminal investigators in 2010 for leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks. Lamo died on March 14, 2018, at the age of 37.