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Anonymous-Linked Hacktivist Aubrey Cottle Jailed Over Texas GOP Cyberattack

  • Deeba Ahmed--HackRead
  • published date: 2026-06-28 16:47:13 UTC

Canadian hacktivist Aubrey Cottle, known as Kirtaner and once linked to Anonymous, gets 18 months for a 2021 Texas GOP website cyberattack.

Aubrey Cottle, an Anonymous-linked hacker from Oshawa, has been sentenced to 18 months after he admitted his involvement in a 2021 website defacement attack on the Republican Party of Texas (also cal… [+2397 chars]