LA Security Consultant Pleads guilty to infecting

AceCaseOR writes: "Security consultant John Schiefer has pled guilty in Los Angeles criminal court to 4 felony counts related to infecting the systems of his clients with viruses to form a botnet that contained a maximum of 250000 systems. Scheifer used the systems he had penetrated to steal user's PayPal usernames and passwords to make unauthorized purchases, as well as installing adware on users computers without their consent. Scheifer was chargd with accessing protected computers to commit fraud, disclosing illegally intercepted electronic communications, wire fraud and bank fraud, and can face up to 60 years in prison and a $1.75 million fine."