400 000 computers 'hijacked'

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A US computer hacker on Monday pleaded guilty to hijacking around 400 000 computers, including military servers, and infecting them with malicious software.
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He admitted he was paid a total of $3 000 by clients for access to networks of the computers he had infected by downloading malicious software.
According to the court papers, advertising service companies would pay Ancheta for each computer he was able to infect with software that displays unsolicited ads to the user.

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