[sleaze]

From the website article:

Hacking passwords and employing social-engineering tactics including fraud, identity theft and harassment, Lazar stored megabytes of victims’ stolen private documents and turned them over to media outlets.

In my views, It's what he "did" with the Information he obtained that led to the prison sentence as described. A fraudulent offense alone, Is a serious crime, let alone everything else he did.

Yeah, I feel as if the Clinton hack was the only thing he'd done wrong, we'd have a much different story.