Botnet Creator Got 4 years in Prison
John Schiefer was convicted for 4 years in prison and fine. John Schiefer and his collegues created a botnet from more than 250 thousands of computers. They used infected computers for advertisement and they tried to steal passwords and all personal data.
John Schiefer – former computer security consultant brought in a verdict of guilty in 2007. He face a 60 years of imprisonment and a fine about 1,5 million dollars. But at the trials he was convicet for 4 years of prison and a fine about 2 thousand dollars.
