A US judge this week sentenced website hacker Billy Anderson to three months behind bars, refusing his lawyer’s request not to put him in jail, in order to “send a message” to others. Anderson, 42, of Torrance, California, targeted thousands of websites under the hacker name AlfabetoVirtual, and boasted about his efforts on a hacking forum. But it was when he brought down the website of New York City’s comptroller for nearly two days in 2015, leaving his pseudonym on the site, and broke into another belonging to military academy West Point the following year, that the authorities chased him down.
Source: The Register
