Idaho Man Gets 10 Years for Threatening Doctor with Leak of His Own Child’s Data, Hacking Clinics, and More

An Idaho man was sentenced this week to 10 years in prison for hacking into the servers of healthcare and state departments across the United States, stealing personal data belonging to more than 132,000 people, and attempting to extort a Florida orthodontist by threatening to leak’s his own child’s personal data online.

In 2017, 45-year-old Robert Purbeck, a resident of Meridian in the US state of Idaho, ventured onto the darknet to buy access credentials for company servers to steal sensitive