McGREGOR W. SCOTT
United States Attorney
Eastern District of California

Sacramento
501 I Street, Suite 10-100
Sacramento, CA 95814

NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

INDICTMENT AND ARREST FOR COMPUTER HACKING

SACRAMENTO -- United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today the arrest of GREG KING, 21, of Fairfield, California, and the unsealing of an Indictment returned on September 27, 2007, charging KING with four counts of electronic transmission of codes to cause damage to protected computers.

This case is the product of an extensive investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

According to Assistant United States Attorney Matthew D. Segal, a prosecutor with the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office who is handling the case, the Indictment alleges that KING used a “botnet” to attack computer servers. A botnet is a network of infected computers that, unbeknownst to their owners, are compromised by a hacker and programmed to respond to a hacker’s commands. The infected computers are referred to as “bots,” “zombies,” or “drones.” According to documents filed with the court, KING allegedly controlled over seven thousand such “bots” and used them to conduct multiple distributed denial of service attacks against websites of two businesses. In a distributed denial of service attack, a hacker directs a large number of infected computers (“bots”) to flood a victim computer with information and thereby disable the target computer. On the Internet, KING was also known as “Silenz, Silenz420, sZ, GregK, and Gregk707.”

When agents went to arrest KING at his residence this morning, KING went out the back door of the residence carrying a laptop computer, depositing it in the bushes in the backyard. Agents obtained a warrant to search KING’s backyard and seized the computer. KING was arrested and is expected to appear before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Sacramento at 2:00 p.m. today.

The maximum statutory penalty for a violation of transmission of damaging code to a protected computer is ten years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. However, the actual sentence will be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables, and any applicable statutory sentencing factors.

The charges are only allegations and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven
guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

hahahaha...

Now... we dance.

Shy does the Victory Dance all around the office.

Is ok...I was the only one here, nobody saw me, I didn't break nuthin.

Wow... about damn time... I guess in the end, the govt will get around to doing the right thing =p

"The maximum penalty for the alleged crimes is 10 years in prison."

I know what Greg is thinking... "God damn Adaera " Oh well, maybe after his prison time and time with bubba, maybe... just maybe he will straighten out, take this as a sign not to mess with the wrong people and think you will get away with it.

Here is another new report on it: http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_7053653

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It almost feels surreal - it's been such a long battle, and so many times it felt like an exercise in futility. Thank you all for sticking with us through the ups and downs of the attacks, the moves, the extra work, the disappointments, the long nights and for the general encouragement when the going got really rough. We're into what I hope is now the final stretch, and we can at last move forward with alot more confidence than we had prior to today.

Wow this is great to see , I have always lived by the motto of what goes around comes around so it certainly looks like Karma has caught up with him, I remember when he used to constantly attack our site. Thanks to everybody though who followed this through to the bitter end i know full well you will feel a sense of relief and satisfaction that it is coming to an end.
I wonder though what sort of sentence he will be handed down.

Ya know, I always wondered what happened to him after those attacks..lmao
Guess I know now.

Have fun with Bubba, Greg

Hey ice, good to see you're still around

hahahah and about time... i hope he is never allowed to go near a computer again
Good job for the people who have helped to put this nasty bad in his box!

All those "drop the soap" jokes we made at the time are now eerily appropriate

Hey Trin - good to see you

Well - we did try to warn Greg, and he obviously didn't listen. Let's hope that he remembers the advice you all kindly gave to him. Do you think that maybe he's kicking himself now for not taking the better, more productive path we offered him?

I suppose that sometimes there are just those cases where the only way a kiddie will learn is through experience... be it good, or bad. In this case, he was warned repeatedly, but made the conscious decision to continue on with his threats and actions. The results will be his learning experience.
According to the docs, up to 10 years and $250,000 in fines.
Quite the expensive learning experience. But still, fitting.

There was a great line on tonight's "CSI: Las Vegas". To quote:How true.

Thanks ada!

This calls for some sort of party

Now all we need to work out is how to get everyone to Australia...

*looks at shy*

There's more of us than is of you lot in Aussieland, so I think it would be a much better idea for all of you to attend the party on this side of the globe - you need to get out more often anyway, right? I know that Verczeh would agree with me, but only because he wants to go to Tim Horton's.



for those of you falling victim to the word filter, that word has been removed from the filter, don't overdo it or I'll put it back

everyone just come to a compromise...

meet in the middle, like say, England?

England is not in the middle - it's way >>>>>>>>>>>>> over there >>>>> in icky weather land and it's got....penguins....


btw small update: trial date will be set on the morning of October 16th.

noooo that's too long to wait.. and I'll probably be in china by then

someone will have to fly over (hint buzzard) and fill me in.

I know it is, but hey after 3+ years, a couple of weeks is practically nothing, right? I just hope the trial date isn't set toooooo far into the future. As for the buzzard, I think he's been buried under an avalanche of medical textbooks or something

I'm hoping it's sometime around first snowfall.
Would be a good time to head to California for a week or so, wouldn't it?

We received a congratulatory email last night, from a local guy named Ryan H.: