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• Robert Matthew Bentley was sentenced to 41 months in prison for hacking into the network of marketing firm Newell Rubbermaid in 2006. Bentley hijacked the firm's network to create a "botnet", a collection of computers that in turn spammed other computers with malicious software.

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: ca. 1987
  2. Online name: "LSDigital"Techworld.com: Roast Operation Skewers Another Botnetter (June 12, 2008)
  3. Plea: Guilty
  4. Convicted of: Computer fraud and conspiracy to commit computer fraud
  5. Sentence: 41 months in prison
  6. Fined: $65,000Techworld.com: Roast Operation Skewers Another Botnetter (June 12, 2008)
  7. Victim: Newell Rubbermaid
  8. $ damage caused by attack: $150,000BBC News: Jail Sentence for Botnet Creator (June 12, 2008)

• Bentley's Crime

  Bentley worked for two Dutch-based companies that paid hackers a fee for each computer upon which they could place the adware Dollar Revenue. Dollar Revenue causes unwanted pop-up ads to appear on the victim's computer. In order to successfully infect many computers at the same time, Bentley created a botnet using Newell Rubbermaid's European computer system.

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