Microsoft WebTV hacker sentenced
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A Louisiana man who launched an e-mail virus that reprogrammed some computers to dial the 911 emergency phone number has been sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to pay $27,000 in restitution to Microsoft, authorities said.
A U.S. federal judge sentenced David Jeansonne, 44, to six months in prison and another six months of home arrest, after he admitted in February to sending the malicious e-mails to 18 subscribers of Microsoft's WebTV in 2002, according to Luke Macaulay, a spokesperson for U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California.