Hungarian hackers were sentenced to two and a half years in prison

The man told Marriott on November 2010, 11, that he had broken into his computer system months earlier. He demanded a job from the hotel chain himself and threatened to leak inside information. Two days later, he confirmed the authenticity of his words in an e-mail with eight attachments.

Marriott has contacted the Secret Service, which is responsible for preventing major financial fraud and for the security of the U.S. currency, the Treasury Department, past and present presidents and vice presidents.

The organization began correspondence with the blackmailer on behalf of a fictitious Marriott staff. Attila N. was tricked into Washington in hopes of a job interview, where he was arrested in January after arriving at Dulles Airport. The man confessed that he had access to the confidential data in an email attachment to a Marriott employee.

Levente Varga previously described MTI as his computer genius as a computer genius who has been living almost for IT since the age of ten. The lawyer said the man just wanted to get a job, but he chose the wrong way to do it, naively thinking he was not committing a crime.

The legal representative said that the long-term unemployed man in Hungary noticed the shortcomings of Marriott's security system and made an offer to replace it in exchange for a job opportunity and a fixed salary. At the company, this was thought to be blackmail and trapped by the Secret Service. Secret Service personnel recorded it when he presented the flaws in the Marriott system in Washington and then captured it.

Levente Varga said on Friday, following the final verdict, citing the judge's reasoning, that although the offense itself could not be described as typical, the Hungarian man still committed a serious act, according to the court.

Source: mti.hu