Romanian pleads guilty to selling Oregon state emergency access

A Romanian man, Catalin Dragomir, 45, formerly of Constanta, Romania, pleaded guilty in the United States to selling unauthorized admin access to Oregon’s state emergency management network after obtaining initial access in June 2021. According to DoJ, he advertised the access and negotiated a sale for $3,000 in Bitcoin, and he provided samples of personal identifying information from the computer to the prospective buyer during the transaction.

Dragomir also sold access to the computer networks of many other US victims, resulting in losses of over $250,000. He was arrested in Romania in November 2024 and extradited to the U.S. in January 2025, and he pleaded guilty to obtaining information from a protected computer and aggravated identity theft. Sentencing is scheduled for 26 May 2026, with a maximum of five years for the first count and a mandatory two-year consecutive term for identity theft, subject to sentencing guidelines and statutory factors.