Convicted Sex Offender Guilty of Hacking Jaguars' Jumbotron

Samuel Arthur Thompson faces a minimum of 35 years in prison for multiple charges including child exploitation and unauthorized computer access.

Samuel Arthur Thompson, a convicted child molester, was found guilty of hacking the jumbotron at the Jacksonville Jaguars stadium after the team learned he was a registered sex offender and fired him.
Thompson was found guilty of producing, receiving and possessing sexual images of children, producing such images while required to register as a sex offender, violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, sending unauthorized damaging commands to a protected computer and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
Before his contract with the Jaguars ended in 2018, Thompson installed remote access software on a spare server in the Jaguars’ server room and remotely accessed computers that control the jumbotron during three 2018 season games, causing the video boards to malfunction repeatedly.
The FBI found thousands of images and hundreds of videos of child sexual abuse on Thompson's devices, including images and videos that Thompson had produced a month before the raid on his home that depicted children that had been in his care and custody.
Thompson faces a mandatory minimum of 35 years in prison when he’s sentenced on March 25, 2024.