Scattered Spider Member Sentenced to 10 Years in String of Hacks (2)

A member of a notorious cybercrime gang known as Scattered Spider was sentenced on Wednesday to ten years in prison in connection with a string of major hacks and cryptocurrency thefts.

US District Judge Harvey Schlesinger delivered the sentence to Noah Urban in federal court in Jacksonville, Florida. Urban was the first member of Scattered Spider to be sentenced.

Urban’s lawyer, Kathryn Sheldon, said her defendant made “some very poor decisions as a teenager,” and that he was taught by older co-conspirators. The court heard impact statements from various people affected by the hacks including a retired firefighter, a victim who claimed to have lost ...