14-01-15 US: The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Hammond: Enemy of the State

The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Hammond: Enemy of the State

As a devastating series of cyberattacks struck the heart of the national-security establishment, the Feds set out to destroy the legendary hacker and radical anarchist by any means necessary

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By JANET REITMAN

DECEMBER 7, 2012 1:20 PM ET

Illustration by Sean McCabe; Photos in Illustration by Cook County Sheriff's Office and Jim Newberry

On a cold day in mid-December 2011, a hacker known as "sup_g" sat alone at his computer – invisible, or so he believed. He'd been working on the target for hours, long after the rest of his crew had logged off: an epic hack, the "digital equivalent of a nuclear bomb," as it later would be described, on the servers of a Texas-based intelligence contractor called Strategic Forecasting Inc. Stratfor served as a sort of private CIA, monitoring developments in political hot spots around the world and supplying analysis to the U.S. security establishment.

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