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Hacker Adrian Lamo, Who Reported Chelsea Manning, Dies at 37
Adrian Lamo, the hacker who reported Chelsea Manning to the FBI after Manning divulged to him that she had leaked classified material to WikiLeaks, died last week in Wichita, Kansas at the age of 37.
Manning was a 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst based in Iraq when she contacted Lamo via AOL Instant Messenger in 2010 under the name “Bradass 87.” In the course of their exchanges, Manning revealed to Lamo that she used her security clearance to access more than 260,000 diplomatic cables and thousands of classified documents, including a video of an American helicopter attack in Baghdad that left 12 people dead. The video was later published by WikiLeaks under the title “Collateral Murder.”
Lamo would hand over his chat logs with Manning to authorities after learning she had given the classified information to WikiLeaks. In a 2011 interview for the FRONTLINE film WikiSecrets, Lamo explained his decision, saying, “I believed and knew that [she] couldn’t possibly have vetted over a quarte
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Adrian Lamo
American hacker and threat analyst (1981-2018)
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| Born | Adrián Alfonso Lamo Atwood (1981-02-20)February 20, 1981 Malden, Massachusetts, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | March 14, 2018(2018-03-14) (aged 37) Wichita, Kansas, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other names | Adrián Lamo, R. Adrián Lamo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Threat analyst, journalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1999–2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Employer | ProjectVIGILANT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Known for | Computer hacking, reporting Chelsea Manning to the Army's Criminal Investigation Command | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable work | Appeared on Hackers Wanted, We Steal Secrets, Good Morning America, Democracy Now!, Aqui y Ahora, and other media outlets, including cover stories in Information Week and SF Weekly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Television | TechTV, KCRA Channel 3 News | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title | Assistant Director for Threat Intelligence | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criminal penalty | two years' probation, with six months to be served in home detention, and ordered to pay $65,000 in restitution[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criminal status | In 2004, pleaded guilty to one felony count in SDNY to hacking The New York Times
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