However, the lenient sentence did not last. While out on supervised release awaiting his fate, Fitzpatrick violated the terms of his bail by using a VPN to access online chatrooms. In those forums, he allegedly made statements challenging the legitimacy of his guilty plea and trivializing the sale of sensitive data to foreign interests. An appellate court found that the original sentence had failed to address the seriousness of his crimes and vacated it. In September 2025, Fitzpatrick was re-sentenced to . In delivering the new sentence, a federal prosecutor described the harm as nearly incalculable, specifically calling out the human cost of the child sexual abuse material he possessed.