Journalist arrested, hit with 14 federal crimes for allegedly hacking, leaking Fox News Tucker Carlson content
Paul Sacca
February 23, 2024
https://www.theblaze.com/news/journalist...=email-breaking

A journalist accused of leaking videos of former Fox News star Tucker Carlson was arrested in Florida on Thursday and hit with 14 federal charges.

Timothy Burke, 45, was charged with one count of conspiracy, six counts of accessing a protected computer without authorization, and seven counts of intercepting or disclosing wire, oral, or electronic communications. Burke faces up to 62 years in federal prison if convicted on all counts.

Burke was released on the condition that he severs contact with his alleged co-conspirator.

The Department of Justice stated that Burke and his co-conspirator "secured and used compromised credentials — usernames and passwords — to gain unauthorized access to protected computers owned or used by the victim entities."
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The indictment said Burke and the co-conspirator were able to steal unaired Carlson video clips by hacking into StreamCo — a U.S.-based online media streaming company used by Fox News.

Federal prosecutors accused Burke and the co-conspirator of obtaining and stealing StreamCo proprietary information from its website and then "used that stolen StreamCo proprietary information to intercept, download, and save the StreamCo broadcaster-customers’ streams."

The suspects allegedly stole video of Carlson caught on a hot mic after the "Tucker Carlson Tonight" show had ended. -- excerpt, rest at link above --