An 18-year-old Wisconsin man has been charged in a plot to hack and steal from hundreds of sports activities betting accounts, court docket paperwork present.

Joseph Garrison, 18, and others allegedly stole roughly $600,000 from 1,600 accounts on an unnamed sports activities betting website. Garrison surrendered to authorities in New York on Thursday and faces six fees together with unauthorized entry to computer systems and wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York introduced.

If convicted of all the costs in opposition to him, Garrison may very well be sentenced to as much as 57 years in jail.

Prosecutors alleged that Garrison and others used credential stuffing assaults, which entail utilizing stolen usernames and passwords from earlier knowledge breaches, to entry accounts on different platforms. According to the felony grievance in opposition to Garrison, hackers accessed roughly 60,000 accounts on the sports activities betting web site.

About 5 months earlier than the sports activities betting web site was hacked, Garrison advised investigators from the Madison Police Department that he had taken half in earlier credential stuffing assaults, in line with the grievance.

The federal defender representing Garrison declined to touch upon the case.

Garrison was launched on bond Thursday and prohibited from utilizing web gadgets aside from his cellphone and laptop, which the court docket will monitor.