Man Linked to 'Anonymous' Gets 3 Years for Hacking

A 22-year-old Ohio man linked to the hacker collective Anonymous was sentenced to three years in federal prison for breaking into police and other websites across the country. John Anthony Borell III of Toledo pleaded guilty to computer fraud in April and agreed to pay $227,000 in damages to computer servers that had to be repaired or beefed up for security.

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