Former US cybersecurity director gets 25 years for online child abuse

  • 12 January 2015
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by Lisa Vaas on January 12, 2015
 
 


The former acting director of cybersecurity for the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison over his activities on a child abuse image website that was hidden - but not particularly well - on the Deep Web and accessed via the Tor anonymity network.
Timothy DeFoggi, 56, was convicted on 26 August 2014 after a four-day jury trial in the state of Nebraska.
The charges against him were: engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, conspiracy to advertise and distribute child pornography, and accessing a computer with intent to view child pornography.
 
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