Romanian Hacker Sentenced to Prison in US for Selling Access to State Network

A Romanian national has been sentenced to prison in the United States after he admitted to selling access to an Oregon state network. The hacker is 45-year-old Catalin Dragomir. He was arrested in Romania in November 2024 and extradited to the United States in January 2025.  He pleaded guilty to one count of obtaining information from a protected computer and one count of aggravated identity theft in February 2026.  This week, he was sentenced to 4 years and 8 months in prison, according to The Oregonian. At sentencing, the judge took into account the two months Dragomir spent in jail in Romania before his extradition.  According to the US Justice Department, Dragomir hacked into the network of an Oregon state government office in June 2021. He sold access to this and other compromised networks in the United States, resulting in losses exceeding $250,000.  The Oregonian reported that the hacker sold access to the Oregon network for $3,000 in Bitcoin.  Dragomir admitted selling information obtained from at least 10 other organizations and prosecutors described him as “prolific”, but he claimed he had worked for another hacker rather than being the scheme’s mastermind.  Another Romanian national, 53-year-old Gavril Sandu, was recently extradited to the United States for his role in a cybercrime scheme carried out 17 years ago. Related: Karakurt Ransomware Negotiator Sentenced to Prison Related: Two US Security Experts Sentenced to Prison for Helping Ransomware Gang Related: Another DraftKings Hacker Sentenced to Prison Related: Dutch Port Hacker Sentenced to Prison WRITTEN BY Eduard Kovacs Eduard Kovacs (@EduardKovacs) is senior managing editor at SecurityWeek. He worked as a high school IT teacher before starting a career in journalism in 2011. Eduard holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial informatics and a master’s degree in computer techniques applied in electrical engineering. More from Eduard Kovacs Anthropic Releases New Claude Sandbox, Security Guidance Plugin Anthropic Expands Claude’s Enterprise Security Governance With 28 New Integrations Ghost CMS Vulnerability Exploited to Hack Over 700 Websites Oncology Institute Discloses Data Breach Anthropic: Mythos Detected 23,000 Potential Vulnerabilities Across 1,000 OSS Projects Drupal Vulnerability in Hacker Crosshairs Shortly After Disclosure Canadian Man Arrested for Operating Kimwolf Botnet ‘First VPN’ Cybercrime Service Disrupted, Administrator Arrested Latest News RevEng.AI Raises $15 Million to Hunt for Flaws and Backdoors in Software Binaries Lastwall Raises $11.5 Million for Quantum-Resilient Identity Platform The Credential Crisis: How Stolen Credentials Defeat Modern Security ‘SymJack’ Attack Turns AI Coding Agents Into Supply Chain Attack Delivery Systems GlassWorm Botnet Disrupted LA Metro Cyberattack Linked to Iranian State-Sponsored Hackers FBI: Hackers Sending Operatives in Person to Insert USB Drives and Steal Data CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Zero-Day Trending Virtual Event: Threat Detection And Incident Response Summit On-Demand Delve into big-picture strategies to reduce attack surfaces, improve patch management, conduct post-incident forensics, and tools and tricks needed in a modern organization. Register Webinar: Third-Party Risk In Practice June 4, 2026 Organizations are investing heavily in third-party risk management, but breaches, delays, and blind spots continue to persist. Join this live webinar as we examine the gap between how organizations think their third-party risk programs are performing and what’s actually happening in practice. Register People on the Move Joe Chen has become Chief Technology Officer at Trellix. Usercentrics has named Pawan Hegde as COO and Elena Ignatova as CPTO. SecureAuth has named Mark van Oppen as Chief Revenue Officer. More People On The Move Expert Insights Caught Off Guard: Securing AI After It Hits Production As enterprises rush AI projects into production, security teams are increasingly being forced into reactive mode. (Joshua Goldfarb) Cyber Resilience Is The New Business Continuity Plan The organizations best prepared to face disruption are those that align security, continuity and risk management around what the business cannot afford to lose. (Steve Durbin) Enhancing Data Center Security Without Sacrificing Performance For AI data centers, where the stakes are the highest and performance constraints are the tightest, security and performance are no longer a zero-sum game. (Nadir Izrael) Is The SOC Obsolete, And We Just Haven’t Admitted It Yet? Many AI-first enterprises have already embraced sovereign architectures for general AI initiatives; cybersecurity—and the SOC—should be next. (Danelle Au) The Mythos Moment: Enterprises Must Fight Agents With Agents Only with the right platform and an agentic, AI-driven defense, will enterprises be able to protect themselves in the agentic era. (Etay Maor) Flipboard Reddit Whatsapp Email