
Haker Adrian Lamo died in the United States, who gained fame after the US authorities issued data for the arrest of WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning (Bradley Manning). Lamo was 37 years old. The coroner in Kansas confirmed the Air Force data on his death, but did not specify the reason.
His Father Mario, who wrote about the death of Lamo, wrote to his friends that a bright mind and a compassionate soul had passed from life.
Lamo, in his own words, was involved in the hacking of Microsoft databases and the servers of The New York Times. At the time of cooperation with Wikileaks, Chelsea Manning was known as Private Bradley Manning and was a man. Bradley announced the transfer of secret data in correspondence with Lamo.
In an interview with The Guardian in 2011, Lamo said that he did not make a decision to give manning to the American authorities, but it was “crushing” to him. He said that he would regret a harsh sentence, resembles "rain" . 35 years of prison for manning have become the most severe sentence for such a crime in the history of the United States.
While in prison, Manning changed the floor and became a woman named Chelsea. In January 2017, Barack Obama, who left the post of US President, softened the verdict to the WikiLeaks informant, after which Manning was released.
Junior American intelligence analyst Bradley Manning was arrested in May 2010. According to the investigation, serving in Iraq, he transferred about 700 thousand secret documents to the WikiLeaks website. Documents were posted into open access. Among them were data regarding the military operations of the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan: video recordings of air strikes, as a result of which peaceful citizens, hundreds of thousands of reports on the fronts in Afghanistan and Iraq, a dossier to prisoners of Guantanamo prisons and about 250 thousand diplomatic deposits of the State Department of the US State Department.