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A Santa Clarita man was sentenced Friday to one year and three months behind bars for hacking the personal computer of an employee of The Walt Disney Company in order to illegally download confidential data from the Burbank-based media conglomerate.<\/p>\n

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Ryan Mitchell Kramer, 26, pleaded guilty last year in Los Angeles federal court to two felony counts: accessing a computer and obtaining information, and threatening to damage a protected computer.<\/p>\n

According to his plea agreement, Kramer posted a computer program in early 2024 on various online platforms, including GitHub, that purportedly could be used to create artificial intelligence-generated art. In fact, the program contained a malicious file that enabled Kramer to gain access to victims\u2019 computers, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

Sometime in April and May of 2024, a victim downloaded the malicious file Kramer posted online, giving Kramer access to the victim\u2019s personal computer, including an online account where the victim stored login credentials and passwords for the victim\u2019s personal and work accounts.<\/p>\n

After gaining unauthorized access to the victim\u2019s computer and online accounts, Kramer accessed a Slack online communications account that the victim used as a Disney employee, gaining access to non-public Disney Slack channels. In May 2024, Kramer downloaded about 1.1 terabytes of confidential data from thousands of Disney Slack channels, according to the plea agreement.<\/p>\n

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In July 2024, Kramer contacted the victim via email and the online messaging platform Discord, pretending to be a member of a fake Russia-based hacktivist group called \u201cNullBulge.\u201d The emails and Discord message contained threats to leak the victim\u2019s personal information and Disney data, court papers show.<\/p>\n

On July 12, 2024, after the victim did not respond to Kramer\u2019s threats, Kramer publicly released the stolen Disney Slack files, as well as the victim\u2019s bank, medical and personal information on multiple online platforms, he acknowledged.<\/p>\n

Kramer further admitted in his plea agreement that, in addition to that victim, at least two other victims downloaded Kramer\u2019s malicious file, and that Kramer was able to gain unauthorized access to their computers and accounts.<\/p>\n

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