Joshua Schichtel of Phoenix, Arizona has been jailed for 30 months for selling access to thousands of hijacked home computers.
Schichtel pleaded guilty to attempting to cause damage to multiple computers without authorisation, through the use of botnets. Millions of computers unwittingly become part of a botnet, which are networks of machines that have been infected with a malicious computer programme. This programme allows unauthorised users to then control the infected computers remotely.