MASSACHUSETTS – A man was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday for hacking into computer networks around the country—including networks belonging to law enforcement agencies and a local college—to obtain highly sensitive law enforcement data and to change his college grades, as well as for possessing stolen credit and debit card numbers.
From August 2012 through November 2012, Cameron Lacroix, 25, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, repeatedly hacked into law enforcement computer servers containing sensitive information including police reports, intelligence reports, arrest warrants, and sex offender information, officials said.
In one such instance, in September 2012, Lacroix hacked into a computer server operated by a local Massachusetts police department and accessed an e-mail account belonging to the chief of police, according to authorities.
Also Lacroix, who was a student at Bristol Community College, also admitted that between September 2012 and November 2013, he repeatedly hacked into the community college’s computer servers and used stolen log-in credentials belonging to three instructors to change grades for himself and two other students, officials said.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern California has also filed hacking charges against Lacroix. That case has been transferred to the District of Massachusetts.