Strategic Forecasting Inc.,commonly known as Stratfor,is an American strategic intelligence publishing company founded in 1996. Stratfor's business model is to provide individual and enterprise subscriptions to Stratfor Worldview,its online publication,and to perform intelligence gathering for corporate clients. The focus of Stratfor's content is security issues and analyzing geopolitical risk.
Jamiel "Jimmy" Alexander Chagra was an American drug trafficker,carpet salesman and professional gambler. He admitted to a role in the May 1979 assassination of United States District Judge John H. Wood Jr. in San Antonio,Texas.
Jeremy Hammond,alias sup_g,is an American anarchist activist and former computer hacker from Chicago. He founded the computer security training website HackThisSite in 2003. He was first imprisoned over the Protest Warrior hack in 2005 and was later convicted of computer fraud in 2013 for hacking the private intelligence firm Stratfor and releasing data to WikiLeaks,and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Loretta A. Preska is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Born in Albany,Preska received law degrees from Fordham University School of Law and New York University School of Law. She practiced law in New York City from 1973 to 1992 at the law firms of Cahill Gordon &Reindel and Hertzog,Calamari &Gleason. President George H. W. Bush appointed her to the district bench in 1992. She served as chief judge of the court for a seven-year term from 2009 to 2016,and took senior status in 2017. President George W. Bush nominated Preska to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 2008,but the Senate did not act on the nomination.
Rachel Lynn Lindsay is an American media personality,attorney and podcaster. She is best known for her role as a contestant on the twenty-first season of ABC's The Bachelor and as the lead of its spinoff,The Bachelorette,in its thirteenth season. She was the first African-American lead in the Bachelor franchise. She was a correspondent for Extra from 2020 to 2023,and is a co-host of the Higher Learning podcast alongside Van Lathan on The Ringer platform. Lindsay was also a partial owner of the FCF Shoulda Been Stars Indoor Football Team.
Anonymous is a decentralized international activist and hacktivist collective and movement primarily known for its various cyberattacks against several governments,government institutions and government agencies,corporations and the Church of Scientology.
The Holy Land Foundation,originally known as Occupied Land Fund, was the largest Islamic charity in the United States. Headquartered in Richardson,Texas,and run by Palestinian-Americans. The organization's mission was to "find and implement practical solutions for human suffering through humanitarian programs that impact the lives of the disadvantaged,disinherited,and displaced peoples suffering from man-made and natural disasters."
Justin Tanner Petersen was an American hacker,concert promoter,sound engineer,private investigator and an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. While tasked with helping to catch other hackers and fugitives wanted by the FBI,he continued to commit serious crimes.
The Federal Correctional Institution,Three Rivers is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated Live Oak County,Texas. It is operated by Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp which houses minimum-security male offenders.
LulzSec was a black hat computer hacking group that claimed responsibility for several high profile attacks,including the compromise of user accounts from PlayStation Network in 2011. The group also claimed responsibility for taking the CIA website offline. Some security professionals have commented that LulzSec has drawn attention to insecure systems and the dangers of password reuse. It has gained attention due to its high profile targets and the sarcastic messages it has posted in the aftermath of its attacks. One of the founders of LulzSec was computer security specialist Hector Monsegur,who used the online moniker Sabu. He later helped law enforcement track down other members of the organization as part of a plea deal. At least four associates of LulzSec were arrested in March 2012 as part of this investigation. Prior,British authorities had announced the arrests of two teenagers they alleged were LulzSec members,going by the pseudonyms T-flow and Topiary.
Hector Xavier Monsegur,known also by the online pseudonym Sabu,is an American computer hacker and co-founder of the hacking group LulzSec. Monsegur became an informant for the FBI,working with the agency for over ten months to aid them in identifying the other hackers from LulzSec and related groups while facing a sentence of 124 years in prison. LulzSec intervened in the affairs of organizations such as News Corporation,Stratfor,UK and American law enforcement bodies and Irish political party Fine Gael.
Barrett Lancaster Brown is an American journalist,essayist,activist and former associate of Anonymous. In 2010,he founded Project PM,a group that used a wiki to analyze leaks concerning the military-industrial complex. It was classified a "criminal organization" by the Department of Justice. In late 2020,Brown restarted Project PM.
Marcel Lehel Lazăr,known as Guccifer,is a Romanian hacker responsible for high-level computer security breaches in the U.S. and Romania. Lazăr targeted celebrities,Romanian and U.S. government officials,and other prominent persons.
Ross William Ulbricht is an American serving life imprisonment for creating and operating the darknet market website Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. The site operated as a hidden service on the Tor network and facilitated the sale of narcotics and other illegal products and services. Ulbricht ran the site under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts",after the fictional character from The Princess Bride.
Steven Robert Donziger is an American attorney known for his legal battles with Chevron,particularly Aguinda v. Texaco,Inc. and other cases in which he represented over 30,000 farmers and indigenous people who suffered environmental damage and health problems caused by oil drilling in the Lago Agrio oil field of Ecuador. The Ecuadorian court awarded the plaintiffs $9.5 billion in damages,which led Chevron to withdraw its assets from Ecuador and launch legal action against Donziger in the US. In 2011,Chevron filed a RICO (anti-corruption) suit against Donziger in New York City. The case was heard by US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan,who determined that the ruling of the Ecuadorian court could not be enforced in the US because it was procured by fraud,bribery,and racketeering activities. As a result of this case,Donziger was disbarred from practicing law in New York in 2018.
The Hacker Wars is a 2014 documentary film about hacktivism in the United States,directed by Vivien Lesnik Weisman. It was released on October 17,2014 in the US.
James Wesley Hendrix is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas and former assistant United States attorney for the same district. He presides over the Northern District's Lubbock,Abilene,and San Angelo Divisions,which account for 47 of the Northern District's 100 counties,and span an area larger than Pennsylvania.
Reality Leigh Winner is an American U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator. In 2018,she was given the longest prison sentence ever imposed for an unauthorized release of government information to the media after she leaked an intelligence report about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. She was sentenced to five years and three months in federal prison.
The Special Counsel investigation was a United States law enforcement and counterintelligence investigation of the Russian government's efforts to interfere in United States politics and any possible involvement by members of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. It was primarily focused on the 2016 presidential election.
Wesley Liu Hsu is an American judge who is serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. He previously served as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court from California from 2017 to 2023.
