Ohio Man Sentenced in Pitt YouTube Threat

Do you got to Pitt? Or have a child who is a student there?

You might be interested to learn that one of the men convicted of creating a YouTube video threatening the release of University of Pittsburgh personal information in the midst of dozens of bomb threats was sentenced Tuesday.

Alexander Waterland, 25, of Loveland, Ohio, will spend one year and one day in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for his conviction of conspiracy to commit Internet extortion.

Waterland and his co-conspirator and co-worker, Brandon Hudson of Ohio, posted the YouTube video in April 2012 claiming to be members of the hacking group Anonymous. The video claimed that they had confidential student and instructor information that they would release unless the chancellor would apologize for not better protecting the data.

Waterland and Hudson are not charged with making any bomb threats against the university.

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