A federal judge Thursday sentenced Marcel Lazar, better known as the hacker “Guccifer,” to 52 months in prison for a cybercrime spree that claimed more than 100 victims, including a confidant of democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and a member of the Bush family.
District Court Judge James Cacheris handed down in sentence in an Alexandria, Virginia courthouse Thursday morning, five months after the hacker was extradited from a prison cell in his native Romania in order to face criminal charges in the U.S.
Mr. Lazar, 44, was already serving a 7-year sentence for hacking in his home country when the U.S. Department of Justice charged him in 2014 with a series of cybercrimes committed against Americas.
The hacker’s targets are redacted in court filings, but previous reports and his own admissions indicate victims included longtime Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and a relative of the Presidents Bush, among others.
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