[pchelpers] News:Hacker Pleads Guilty to BotNet Attacks

A 19-year-old hacker, Jason Michael Milmont, has agreed to plead guilty
in a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in Los Angeles. He is
accused of being the mastermind behind a 15,000-computer-strong botnet
that was used to hack the personal data from thousands of victims. A
federal cybercrime official called this the nation’s first botnet attack
that used P2P software as the infection point.

More here:
http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MzMzNDcsLCwsLCwx
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