Man Pleads Guilty to Infecting Thousands of Computers Using Worm Program

Identity Theft
Information Security Technology
Phishing
Risk Management

"Botnet" Investigation Led by U.S. Secret Service’s Electronic Crimes Task Force and the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office

SAN JOSE – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that Anthony Scott Clark, 21, of Beaverton, Oregon, pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon in federal court in San Jose to launching a computer attack against the Internet auction site eBay in July and August 2003 with an army of infected computers he had amassed by using a computer worm program.

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