Sasser author gets suspended term
A German court has convicted the teenager who created the Sasser worm that snarled tens of thousands of computers last year and sentenced him to 21 months’ probation. Not too bad for what all it shut down in the days after the attack.
Sven Jaschan, 19, from the northwest town of Waffensen, could have faced five years in prison as an adult but was tried as a minor because the court determined he created the virus when he was 17, said Katharina Kreutzfeldt, spokeswoman for the Verden State Court outside Bremen.
Jaschan sent the computer worm on the Internet on his 18th birthday, April 29, 2004. It was blamed for shutting down British Airways flight check-ins, hospitals and government offices in Hong Kong, part of Australia’s rail network, Finnish banks, British Coast Guard stations, and millions of other computers worldwide.
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