A member of hacker group “Anonymous” has pleaded guilty to hacking a private intelligence firm and several websites, The Huffington Post reports. Twenty-eight-year-old Jeremy Hammond has admitted to assisting in the December 2011 attack on Stratfor Global Intelligence Service as well as hacking the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, the FBI’s Virtual Academy and an Alabama sheriff’s office. He faces up to 10 years in prison. Hammond said he committed the acts, which gathered the credit card and other personal information of more than one million people, in the name of greater transparency because people “have a right to know what governments and corporations are doing behind closed doors.”
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