The 20-year old Dutch author of the Anna Kournikova worm that
infected millions of computers during February has been sentenced
to 150 hours of community service in the first case of its kind in
Holland. The worm slowed or, in some cases, crippled those networks
affected.
Jan de Wit, a student and computer shop employee from the town
of Sneek, was given the alternative of a 75-day custodial sentence.
The case is his first offence.
The public prosecutor had asked the court to impose a sentence
of 240 hours community service and confiscation of his computer
equipment. However, the FBI had written to the court in Leeuwarden,
claiming that de Wit’s actions caused damage estimated at $166,000
although the court dismissed the letter for lacking in details.
