10 Facts About Jonathan James

Jonathan Joseph James was an American hacker who was the first juvenile incarcerated for cybercrime in the United States.

Jonathan James died at his Pinecrest, Florida home on May 18,2008, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Between August 23,1999, and October 27,1999, James committed a series of intrusions into various systems, including those of BellSouth and the Miami-Dade school system.

Jonathan James later admitted to authorities that he had installed an unauthorized backdoor in a computer server in Dulles, Virginia, which he used to install a sniffer that allowed him to intercept over three thousand messages passing to and from DTRA employees, along with numerous usernames and passwords of other DTRA employees, including at least 10 on official military computers.

Jonathan James' house was raided on January 26,2000, by agents from the Department of Defense, NASA and the Pinecrest Police Dept.

Jonathan James was sentenced to seven months house arrest and probation until the age of eighteen and was required to write letters of apology to NASA and the Department of Defense.

Jonathan James was banned from using computers for recreational purposes.

Jonathan James later violated that probation when he tested positive for drug use and was then subsequently taken into custody by the United States Marshals Service and flown to an Alabama federal correctional facility where he ultimately served six months.

On May 18,2008, Jonathan James was found dead in his shower with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Jonathan James's suicide was allegedly motivated by the belief that he would be prosecuted for crimes he had not committed.