Crime & Safety

Ohio Man Sentenced in Pitt YouTube Threat

The YouTube video threatened to release personal information during the same time a number of bomb threats were being made against the university.

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 received his sentence 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.

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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.

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