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United States Unseals Charges Against Aubrey Cottle for Theft of Texas Republican Party Data

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Feed Name: DataBreaches.Net

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Date Published: 2025-03-30

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

Author: Dissent

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The U.S. Department of Justice announced charges against Canadian national Aubrey Cottle for allegedly compromising a third-party hosting provider to deface and steal a backup of the Texas Republican Party’s web server in 2021, containing personal identifying information that was later distributed online. The FBI Austin Cyber Task Force is investigating with Canadian law enforcement support; if convicted, Cottle faces up to five years in prison.

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