Security consultant John Schiefer, 26 admitted in Los Angeles criminal court that het infected the systems of his clients with viruses to form a botnet containing a maximum of 250,000 systems. He used his zombies to steal users PayPal usernames and passwords to make unauthorized purchases! This is the reason why I don’t let my PayPal balance increase and withdraw it to my bank account so that I can have sound sleep at night. He also installed adware on their computers without their permission. Schiefer agreed to plead guilty to four felony charges of accessing protected computers to commit fraud, disclosing unlawfully intercepted electronic communications, wire fraud, and bank fraud. He will be sentenced Dec. 3 and faces up to 60 years in prison and a fine of $1.75 million (owned) !!

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