Slovenian hacker sentenced to jail for 'malicious' programme
A Slovenian court on Monday sentenced to 58 months in jail Matjaz Skorjanc, the creator of the "Mariposa Botnet", a vast network of virus-infected computers used by criminal hackers.
Skorjanc was found guilty of "creating a malicious computer programme for hacking information systems, assisting in wrongdoings and money laundering", the Maribor regional court said.
It also ordered him to pay 3,000 euros ($4,100)along with the expropriation of an apartment and a car that Skorjanc had bought with the money he earned by selling the computer virus to a Spanish crime group. Skorjanc, a 27-year-old former medicine student, was arrested in 2010 in a joint two-year-long operation carried out by the United States' FBI with the Spanish and the Slovenian police.
