December 10, 2007

Former Rizon IRC Network Owner Gets 12 Month Sentence

According to reports, Jason Michael Downey, 24, of Dry Ridge, Kentucky was sentenced to serve 12 months in Federal prison for unlawful computer intrusion. He was ordered to serve three years on suspended release, and ordered to pay $21,110 in restitution and to perform 150 hours of community service.

Documents presented in court by the US Department of Justice indicated that Downey owned Rizon.net IRC Network from mid-June 2004 through early September 2004.

During this time, Downey was found to have operated a bot network. By directing compromised PCs to attack and subvert other computers, he managed to increase the size of his bot network to about 6,000 machines. Thereafter, he used the IRC network known as Yotta-byte.net to launch denial-of-service attacks that impaired various computer systems on the Internet. The DoJ puts the financial damage caused by these attacks at over $20,000.

['Bot Master' Gets 12 Months In Federal Prison]

Posted in IRC News by #!/usr/bin/geek at 2007-12-10 21:07 ET (GMT-5)

Tags: irc rizon computersecurity coporatesecurity datasecurity hacker hackers hacking