Former Navy IT Manager Sentenced for Selling Stolen PII

A former Navy IT manager was sentenced to 65 months in prison for conspiring in the sale of fraudulently acquired personally identifiable information (PII).

According to court documents, 32-year-old Marquis Hooper of California and his wife, Natasha Chalk, stole the PII of more than 9,000 people and sold it to fraudsters through the dark web and encrypted messaging platforms for $160,000 in bitcoin.
To acquire the PII, Hooper created an account on a company that maintains a database that …

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