A Santa Clarita man has agreed to plead guilty to two felony counts of hacking the personal computer of a Disney employee last year.

Ryan Mitchell Kramer, 25, will admit to one count of accessing a computer and obtaining information and one count of threatening to damage a protected computer, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Central District of California.

Each count carries a statutory maximum sentence of five years in federal prison, but it’s not clear if those sentences will be served separately or concurrently.

In early 2024, Kramer illegally gained access to the Disney employee’s computer via a program he posted GitHub. It contained a malicious file that enabled Kramer to carry out the hack.

Kramer downloaded approximately 1.1 terabytes of confidential data from thousands of Disney Slack channels, according to the press release.

After unsuccessfully trying to blackmail the hacking victim by...