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Home   »   Bad Sites   »   “TK Worm” Virus Authors senteced to prison

“TK Worm” Virus Authors senteced to prison

  • Posted on:October 12, 2005 at 12:11 pm
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Two men were finally sentenced to prison for
conspiring to create a computer worm for an international hacking
group. Bradley and Harvey were arrested in February 2003 at the
same time as the 21-year-old American Raymond Stegerwalt.
Stegerwalt was sentenced to 21 months in jail and fined $12,000 by
the US Department of Defense, for damages caused by the worm he
created.


The two were identified by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU)
as members of the hacking group “THr34t Krew”. They were charged
for writing the “TK Worm” in 2003.


Jordan Bradley, the 22-year-old electrician from Darlington, was
sentenced to three months at Newcastle Crown Court after pleading
guilty to “unauthorised modifications to the contents of computers
with the intent to impair the operation”.


The other, Andrew Harvey, an unemployed 23-year-old from Durham,
was sentenced to six months after pleading guilty to the same
charges.

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