British hacker Sean Caffrey (Sean Caffrey), who received unauthorized access to data from the satellite communications system of the Ministry of Defense, received a suspended prison sentence. The hacker admitted his guilt and was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment on probation with a probationary period for the same period.

The Royal Court of Birmingham acknowledged that Caffrey had stolen the credentials and e-mail addresses of more than 800 users of the satellite communications system, as well as of 30,000 users. satellite phones.

According to representatives of the US Department of Defense, to restore the system after the attack in 2014 took about 50 hours and $ 628 thousand.

Caffrey was arrested in March 2015. As then reported by the National Crime Agency of Great Britain (NCA), the hacker cracked the mobile satellite service that the Pentagon used to communicate with its employees around the world. According to the agency, the arrested person confessed to the attack in a message published on the Pastebin website and as a proof of hacking published screenshots with full names, phone numbers, logins and e-mail addresses of servicemen.