Date: 10-22-2014

Case Style: United States of America v. Daniel Trenton Krueger

Case Number: 4:14-cr-00074-JHP

Judge: James H. Payne

Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma (Tulsa County, Oklahoma

Plaintiff's Attorney: Joel-lyn A. McCormick

Defendant's Attorney: Stephen James Greubel - FPD for Daniel Trenton Krueger

Stan Monroe for Nicholas Paul Knight

Description: TULSA, OKLAHOMA —Daniel Trenton Krueger, one of two leaders of the computer hacking group known as Team Digi7al, was sentenced today to serve twenty-four months in federal prison for hacking the U.S. Navy, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and over 50 public and private computer systems, U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. announced.

Krueger, 20, of Dix, Illinois, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge James H. Payne on May 20, and was initially charged in a single-count information on May 5, 2014. At the time of the hacking Krueger was a student. The co-defendant, Nicholas Paul Knight, 27, of Chantilly, Virginia, will be sentenced on November 21, 2014. Knight was an active-duty enlisted member of the Navy aboard the USS Harry S. Truman at the time of the hacking.

“Cybercrime is one of the most serious national security challenges we face as a nation, and it is one of the Department of Justice’s highest priorities,” said U.S. Attorney Williams. “We will vigorously investigate and prosecute cybercrimes. I commend the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service for their quick actions to identify and investigate the computer intrusions.”

According to court documents, in June 2012, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) detected a breach of the U.S. Navy’s Smart Web Move (SWM) database, which stored personal records, including Social Security numbers, names, and dates of birth, for approximately 222,000 service members. The servers that stored these records were located in Tulsa. At the time of the hacking attacks, Knight, Krueger, and other Team Digi7al conspirators posted links to the stolen information on a Team Digi7al Twitter account.

Investigators with the NCIS and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) identified Knight and Krueger as the hackers after a sting operation aboard the USS Harry S. Truman.

Victims of the conspiracy included the following organizations:

U.S. Navy
U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
MobiTv
Autotrader.com
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Kawasaki
Library of Congress
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Louisville University
MeTV Network
Montgomery Police Department (Alabama)
Peruvian Ambassador’s email (in Bolivia)
San Jose State University
Stanford University
Toronto Police Service (Canada)
Ultimate Car Page
University of Alabama
University of British Columbia (Canada)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
World Health Organization

The case was investigated by the NCIS Atlantic Cyber Operations office in Norfolk, Virginia, with the cooperation and assistance of the DCIS Cyber Field Office, and other federal, state, and local agencies.

Outcome: See above

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