- Kansas Man Hacked Health Club, NonProfit and Previous Employer to promote his services
- He assumed responsibility and offered remedial support
- He could have up to five years in prison and more
A Kansas man has only pleaded guilty to hacking more organizations to promote his own cyber security services.
Nicholas Michael Kloster, a 32-year-old from Kansas City, was indicted in 2024 for violating three organizations, including a health club and a nonprofit organization in Missouri.
Under the incident e -mailed, Kloster business owners who claimed the responsibility of the attacks, offering consulting services to prevent future cyberattacks and his fate will soon be determined.
Cyberattacker admits to pushing his own consulting services
In one case, Kloster gained access to a gym systems by violating a limited area. He manipulated the system to remove his own photo from the membership database before reducing his monthly membership fee to $ 1. Then he explained to the business owner that he had bypassed login information for security cameras and access to router settings.
In a separate event, Kloster used a boot disk to bypass approval in a nonprofit’s systems, steal sensitive data, install a VPN and change user passwords.
A press release from the US lawyer’s office in the western district of Missouri explains that “the company has maintained significant losses in an attempt to remedy the effects of this intrusion.”
Furthermore, it is said that Kloster has stolen credit card data from a previous employer to buy hacking tools (including a thumb driver that was advertised as a tool for hacking for vulnerable computers) after being fired from the company in April 2024.
The lawyer’s office explained that Kloster’s actions deserve him up to five years in prison in federal prison without triallessness, a fine of up to $ 250,000, up to three years of monitored release and a refund order. A jury will decide the exact consequences he will face, but the FBI’s involvement suggests that monastery could face some rather serious penalties.
