<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>Nicholas Michael Kloster, a man from Kansas, pleaded guilty to hacking multiple organizations, including a health club, nonprofit, and former employer, to promote his own cybersecurity services.</li><li>Kloster accessed the organizations' systems using various methods, such as breaching a restricted area at a gym and using a boot disk to bypass authentication into a nonprofit's systems.</li><li>He offered consulting services to prevent future cyberattacks after claiming responsibility for the breaches and stole credit card data to buy hacking tools.</li><li>Kloster faces potential consequences of up to five years in federal prison without parole, a fine of up to $250,000, supervised release, and restitution. The FBI's involvement suggests serious punishment.</li></ul>

Hacker pleads guilty to breaching company networks to pitch his own services

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