The US tried to steal data of 250,000 computers

The Los Angeles court is in the process of adjudicating a case of a hacker spreading a virus that has infected 250,000 computers and stolen the user's bank account access code.

The trial, which began on November 9, said that 26-year-old John Schiefer could be jailed for up to 60 years and pay $ 1.75 million in compensation for fraud. Stole the victim's confidential information.

Schiefer is an information security consultant, but he is also famous in the underworld of botnet networks with the nickname Botmaster. Schiefer and some unidentified objects coordinated to organize the installation of malicious code on the computer. These are programs that can collect data from the security information area on this computer system, and block the messages sent to paypal.com and other similar payment service websites. self.

Thereby, Schiefer captured the customer's username and password, as well as being able to access their bank accounts. However, the investigation steps are still underway to clarify the amount of money stolen by this behavior.

In addition, Schiefer was suspected of having agreed on a US $ 19,000 technical advisory agreement for Dutch Internet advertising company Simpel, to install spyware software written by himself. About 150,000 computers of these businesses.

If nothing changes, the court's final ruling on this Botmaster is set for December 3.

Anh Tu