Charles Harvey Eccleston was sentenced to 18 months in prison for targeting DOE workers with a spearphishing campaign in 2015. Eccleston was a former Department of Energy (DOE) staffer.

U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss also fined Eccleston $9,000 which was the sum that the FBI provided to Eccleston during the course of the undercover investigation. Eccleston was working directly with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission at the time.

Eccleston pleaded guilty in February 2016 to one charge of attempted unauthorized access and intentional damage to a protected computer, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

According to the DOJ, Eccleston was fired from the NRC in 2010 and in 2013 he tried to sell 5,000 email accounts belonging to people working for an undisclosed U.S. government energy agency to a foreign government.

Source: SCMagazine