Robert Matthew Bentley, a hacker convicted of hijacking hundreds of computers and thus creating a botnet, has been jailed for over three years in the United States. He must pay US$65,000 in fines, and will be subject to supervision after release.
Bentley used the botnet to attack other computers and install programmes on the infects PCs that caused endless pop-up adverts. He was caught after Newell Rubbermaid reported an intrusion on its networks to the CCU.
An investigation was launched in 2006 which included the FBI, the US Secret Service and Sophos, a computer security company. The intrusion of the Rubbermaid network cost the company US$150,000 to repair.
