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Boston, Massachusetts - An individual, formerly a juvenile, pleaded guilty to committing acts of federal juvenile delinquency in relation to a cyberattack that caused massive disruption to the Internet in October 2016.
Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Scott W. Murray of the District of New Hampshire, and Special Agent in Charge Joseph R. Bonavolonta of the FBI’s Boston Division made the announcement.
According to the plea agreement, the individual conspired to commit computer fraud and abuse by operating a botnet and by intentionally damaging a computer. Because the individual was a juvenile at the time of the commission of the offense, the individual’s identity is being withheld pursuant to the Juvenile Delinquency Act, see 18 U.S.C. § 5031, et seq. The guilty plea took place in a closed proceeding before Chief Judge Landya B. McCafferty in the D
Hampton man gets 7 years for distributing child sex abuse images
Portsmouth Herald
John William McMahon, 30, was sentenced on the charge Wednesday, according to U.S. Attorney Scott W. Murray.
McMahon’s arrest was the result of an undercover investigation, where members of the New Hampshire Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force accessed a peer-to-peer network to identify users who may be sharing child pornography images. On various dates between Dec. 14, 2017, and Jan. 2, 2018, officers conducted single-source downloads of child pornography from a certain I.P. address. Agents identified the address used to distribute child pornography images and identified McMahon as the person responsible for distributing the images. In a consensual interview, McMahon admitted accessing wireless internet belonging to a neighboring apartment and downloading the images.