NYC Private Investigator Sentenced to Three Months in Prison for Hacking Email Accounts

A New York City-based private investigator was sentenced to three months in prison Friday by a federal court after pleading guilty in March to conspiracy to commit computer hacking, said a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. It said that since 2009, Eric Saldarriaga, 41, advertised “Hacking Services” on the Internet, and hired individuals to hack into email accounts for about 50 different individuals he investigated on behalf of his clients, as well as individuals he was interested in personally. Saldarriaga was ordered to forfeit $5,000, pay a $1,000 fine and also was sentenced to three years of supervised release.