Earlier this month, a district court in Alaska sentenced three college-aged men from Washington state, Pennsylvania and Louisiana in connection with the development and deployment of the Mirai botnet. The botnet was behind an unprecedented October 2016 distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that crippled a host of popular websites across the United States.
All three defendants, however, received no jail time. Instead, they were sentenced to five years probation, a $127,000 fine and 2,500 hours of community service, which included a requirement that they continue to aid federal cybersecurity investigations.
