UK: Hackers jailed over global virus

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

Via The BBC.

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Two hackers have been jailed for helping to create a virus that infected thousands of computers worldwide.

Andrew Harvey, 24, of Sherburn Village, Co Durham, was jailed for three months, and Jordan Bradley, 22, of Darlington, 
was jailed for six months, on Friday.

The men admitted a conspiracy charge in May this year for their part in creating what was called the T-K Worm.

It used internet chat channels to infect other computers which then gave the hackers control of them.

They were arrested in 2003 after a joint investigation by hi-tech crime officers in Britain and the US.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4319942.stm

- ferg


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