Man Gets 30 Months for Infecting Computers

September 6, 2012

A federal judge sentenced an Arizona man to 30 months in prison for selling access to thousands of hijacked computers. Prosecutors said Joshua Schichtel, 30, of Phoenix, infected about 72,000 computers with viruses.

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