Hacker sentenced to jail term
Date: August 12, 2005Source: gameshout.com
The sentence that was given on Monday by the U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte, includes also a $27,100 fine to be paid to Microsoft and six month home detention. Jeansonne pled guilty in February to charges of intentionally causing damage to computers and causing a threat to public safety.
WebTV, which has been since rebranded as MSN TV, is a service operated by Microsoft for connecting to the Internet through television sets. Jeansonne’s e-mails sent in 2002 contained a program that changed the WebTV access phone number to 911. This resulted in at least 10 fake emergency calls across the country.
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