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Botnet Hacker Gets Four Years

By Ryan Singel, Kevin Poulsen, Sarah Lai Stirland, Kim Zetter, and David Kravets

A Los Angeles man was sentenced late Wednesday in federal court to four years in prison after pleading guilty last year to infecting as many as 250,000 computers and stealing thousands of peoples' identities and hijacking their bank accounts. The Los Angeles authorities said John...

Full post as published by Threat Level on March 05, 2009 (boomark / email).