According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Kentucky, a man from Kentucky who hacked into a death register in order to fake his own death in order to avoid paying child support was sentenced to more than six years in prison on Monday.
According to his guilty deal, Jesse Kipf created a “case” for his own death on the Hawaii death register system in January 2023 by logging in with the login and password of a doctor who practiced in a different state.
After that, he filled out a death certificate form, designated himself as the case’s medical certifier, and verified his passing by using the physician’s digital signature. As a result, Kipf was listed in numerous government databases as having passed away,” the press release states.
According to the report, Kipf acknowledged that he staged his own demise “in part, to avoid his outstanding child support obligations.”
“We honor the court’s ruling,” Tommy Miceli, Kipf’s lawyer, stated to CNN.
According to investigators, Kipf attempted to resell access to the networks on the dark web after breaking into corporate, governmental, and death registration systems in other jurisdictions using passwords he had stolen from actual persons.
Kipf was given an 81-month jail sentence on Monday, and according to federal law, he must serve 85 percent of the term behind bars. According to the statement, he will be monitored by the U.S. Probation Office for three years after being released.
The unscrupulous and destructive nature of this plot was partly motivated by the unjustifiable desire to evade his child support payments, according to Carlton S. Shier, IV, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky. “This case serves as a stark reminder of the harm that computer-related criminals can cause and the importance of internet and computer security for all of us.”
