@OP
Please change the title of this thread. The US Navy is NOT who did the alleged crime(s).
It was done by Marquis Asaad Hooper and Natasha Rene Chalk who were members of the Navy which is a helluva lot different than what your title says.
Thank you for pointing this out. The content in this thread is not what I expected to read (fortunately) when I clicked on the title link.
About the news, 20 years is quite a long time in prison. Let's see how it ends, but it is not worth the risk for $160k, IMO. What I don't know if I have understood well is that they sold the data TO more than 9,000 people or FROM more than 9,000? It seems to me that the title and the text in the post differ here.
BTW, congratulations Daltonik, you are almost there!!