A 39-year-old Kentucky man broke into authorities registry techniques to faux his personal identification, all to keep away from paying little one assist, a courtroom has dominated. He has since been sentenced to 81 months in federal jail.
Jesse Kipf was sentenced to 81 months on Monday by U.S. District Choose Robert Wier, for laptop fraud and aggravated identification theft, a press launch from the US Division of Justice (DoJ) mentioned.
Kipf used stolen credentials to entry the Hawaii Loss of life Registry System, fraudulently registering himself as deceased. His motive for the intrusion was to evade little one assist obligations.
“Particularly, in January 2023, Kipf accessed the Hawaii Loss of life Registry System, utilizing the username and password of a doctor dwelling in one other state, and created a case for his personal dying,” the DoJ famous.
“Kipf then accomplished a State of Hawaii Loss of life Certificates Worksheet, assigned himself because the medical certifier for the case, and authorized his dying, utilizing the digital signature of the physician.”
Kipf additionally broke into dying registry techniques in different states, together with personal enterprise and authorities networks, all utilizing stolen credentials. He then tried to promote entry to those networks to consumers on the darkish internet, in keeping with the DoJ.
The hacker even used a false Social Safety quantity to use for a credit score or debit account at a monetary establishment. The entire harm brought on to authorities and company techniques, alongside along with his unpaid little one assist, amounted to $195,758.65.
FBI’s Michael E. Stansbury, who led the investigation, said: “This defendant who hacked a wide range of laptop techniques and maliciously stole the identification of others for his personal private acquire, will now pay the value,” including that, “victims of identification theft face lifelong affect and for that cause, the FBI will pursue anybody silly sufficient to have interaction on this cowardly habits.”
Kipf should serve 85 p.c of his jail sentence, and as soon as he’s launched from jail, he might be below the supervision of the US Probation Workplace for 3 years.
Final month, we reported on how one hacker found a solution to get free laundry for all times, whereas one other concerned within the GTA 6 case was sentenced to a safe hospital.
