📣🚨 Anonymous-linked Canadian hacktivist #AubreyCottle, known as Kirtaner, has been jailed for 18 months over the 2021 Texas GOP website cyberattack.

Listen or read: https://hackread.com/anonymous-hacktivist-aubrey-cottle-gop-cyberattack/

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Aubrey Cottle has pleaded guilty to three charges stemming from a cyberattack linked to notorious hacktivist group Anonymous on the Texas Republican Party:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/economy/article-canadian-hacker-pleads-guilty-cyberattack-texas-republican-website/

Background in DOJ presser in 2025: https://databreaches.net/2025/03/30/united-states-unseals-charges-against-aubrey-cottle-for-theft-of-texas-republican-party-data/

Back in 2020, Cottle, credited with being the founder of Anonymous, shared his thoughts on Reddit in an AMA:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/jmafy5/i_am_aubrey_cottle_aka_kirtaner_i_am_the_founder/

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