In 2005, A California resident Jeanson Anceta used “botnet” armies of compromised computers to launch destructive spam and adware attacks. His work affected computers used by the US Federal Government for National Defense!!!!!
He could earn over $107,000 from installing adware into over 400,000 computers. Jeanson also sold “botnets” to other PC users who needed them to launch Denial of Service attacks (DDOS) and email spam. He received about $3,000 for these transactions.
Result:
Jeanson James Anceta was sentenced to 5 years in prison in 2006. He then has to undergo 3 years of supervised release (which limited his Internet and computer access). He also has to pay $15,000 in restitution to the Weapons Division of the United States Naval Air Warfare Center, relinquish $58,000 of his profits from his illegal activities and forfeit his 1993 BMW. As of 2006, Jeanson’s term of sentence is the longest known for an individual who has spread malicious computer viruses.
I think that in this case there are two kinds of cybercrime; one cybercrime against Government and the other one against property, thereby the punishment was too much in term of fine cash, also too long in term of years in prison!
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