Bot Herder Ancheta was sentenced to 57 months in jail in 2006. This week cohort SoBe (not the soft drink) has pleaded guilty to two counts of juvenile delinquency relating to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, causing damage to computers used by the federal government in national defense and accessing protected computers without authorization to commit fraud. Sentencing scheduled for May 5, 2008.
Apprantly these malicious hackers gained remote access to thousands of U.S. computers, including Sandia National Laboratories, a facility that works on nuclear weapons and other sensitive material.
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