In June 2009, federal authorities arrested William McGraw (alias "GhostExodus") on charges of hacking into 14 computers at W.B. Carrell Memorial Clinic in Dallas, where he worked as a security guard. According to prosecutors, McGraw gained access to the network as part of his plot to attack Anonymous on or before the Fourth of July -- which he called "Devil's Day."His master plan, however, never came to fruition. Last May, McGraw pleaded guilty to two counts of transmitting a malicious code, and reportedly confessed that he intended to launch a distributed denial of service attack against Anonymous's website. Last week, he finally received his sentence from U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle: more than nine years in federal prison.
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