Dutch Botnet Hacker Appeals Jail Sentence

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via PC World (WebWereld Netherlands).

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The leader of a gang that committed what has been described as the
Netherland's biggest cybercrime is appealing his sentence.

The man, a 20 year old from Loon op Zand who has not been named, was
sentenced on Jan. 30 to two years in prison and a €9,000 (US$11,691)
fine. Prosecutors had been seeking three years imprisonment and a €30,000
fine.

The second hacker, a 28-year-old man from Rijswijk, was given 18 months in
prison and fined €4,000. He did not appeal his sentence.

Because one of the men is appealing, the prosecutor also appealed the
sentence on Tuesday. "The penalty they were given is a little less then we
had asked for. That's why we want to try and raise the jail term," said
Desiree Leppens, spokeswoman for the National Public Prosecution Service in
Rotterdam.

The two men were found guilty of writing the Toxbot and Wayphisher viruses.
They used the Toxbot virus to infect millions of computers in 2005. The
virus included a key logger that provided the hackers with user names and
passwords of eBay and PayPal accounts, as well as some personal credit-card
information. The card information was used to buy equipment including
PlayStations consoles, iPods and digital cameras, as well as luxury goods
such as Prada shoes.

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More:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129048/article.html

Background:
http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2007/01/botnet-herders-face-jailtime.html

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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