Hacker Gets 30 Months Prison Term for Infecting 72,000 PCs

JMH · Sep 10, 2012

A hacker received a 30 month in prison sentence for creating a botnet and a charge of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

30-year old Joshua Schichtel had pleaded guilty to building the 72,000 computer net in 2009 as a service to customers who would ask him to infect computers with various types of malware. Apparently, Schichtel accepted a $1,500 payment from a customer in one specific case.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/09/...ign=Feed:+KrebsOnSecurity+(Krebs+on+Security)

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Hacker Gets 30 Months Prison Term for Infecting 72,000 PCs

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