Russian-born Botnet Herder Alexander Konstantinovich Tverdokhlebov, 29, of Los Angeles, sentenced to 110 months in prison. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud and masterminding hacking and card-fraud schemes. He boasted on cybercrime forums between 2009 and 2013 that he had built multiple botnets, controlling up to 500,000 malware-infected PCs at a time. He also claimed to have possessed or trafficked 40,000 credit card numbers.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/russian-born-botnet-herder-hit-9-year-sentence-a-10099