The 21-year-old who went by the alias “Snoopy” has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in the 2022 DraftKings account hacking spree. Nathan Austad of Minnesota pleaded guilty in December 2025 to conspiracy to commit computer intrusion.
Austad and his co-conspirators compromised about 60,000 DraftKings accounts using credential stuffing — exploiting weak and reused passwords from other breaches. They added their own payment methods to 1,600 of those accounts and made off with around $600,000. DraftKings initially reported less than $300,000 stolen, then had to revise that number upward.
Here’s how the operation worked: Austad ran his own online shop selling access to hacked DraftKings accounts. His cryptocurrency accounts raked in about $465,000 from buyers who used the stolen credentials to cash out account balances and promotional funds. Court documents show prosecutors found direct messages where Austad openly discussed the fraud with co-conspirators.
He wasn’t the first to get caught in this case. Joseph Garrison was sentenced to 18 months in January 2024 for the same scheme. Kamerin Stokes, who went by “TheMFNPlug,” received a 30-month sentence in April 2026. An additional two suspects were charged in 2024.
Beyond the prison time, Austad also got three years of supervised release. It’s a relatively light sentence, but then again, he was cooperating and his co-conspirators handled bigger slices of the operation.
The takeaway: if you’re still reusing passwords across sites, stop. Credential stuffing attacks like this one work precisely because people recycle login credentials. A password manager takes five minutes to set up and prevents this entire category of breach.
