Adrian Lamo

Adrian Lamo (February 20, 1981 – March 14, 2018) was an American threat analyst and hacker. Lamo was known for breaking into several high-profile computer networks, including those of The New York Times, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, culminating in his 2003 arrest.

In 2010, Lamo reported U.S. soldier Chelsea Manning to Army criminal investigators, claiming that Manning had leaked hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks.

Lamo died on March 14, 2018, in Wichita, Kansas, at the age of 37. His body was identified at a morgue on March 16, when his death was publicly announced. The cause is unknown.

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