Romanian Hacker Faces Up to 7 Years for Breaching Oregon Emergency Management Department

A 45-year-old Romanian national, Catalin Dragomir, pleaded guilty to hacking into Oregon’s Department of Emergency Management in June 2021 and selling unauthorized access for $3,000 in Bitcoin. Dragomir also breached 10 additional U.S. companies, resulting in financial losses of at least $250,000. The hack targeted government systems, though no specific technical methods or vulnerabilities (e.g., CVE IDs) were disclosed. The defendant faces a potential sentence of up to seven years in prison. No further details on the impacted organizations or the nature of the financial losses were provided.