Twenty-one-year-old hacker Jeanson James Ancheta of Downey, Calif., was sentenced to 57 months in prison for hacking into hundreds of thousands of computers and renting the network of computers he shanghaied to spyware companies and spammers. He also pleaded guilty to hacking into computers at the weapons division of the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake and the Defense Information Systems Agency, causing roughly $15,000 worth of damage. He then used those computers as a base for online ad-serving software that earned him more than $61,000 and a BMW car.”]
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