Christopher Maxwell will have to pay more than $252,000 in restitution to a hospital and the Department of Defense for his role in attacking thousands of computers with a botnet that installed adware on target machines.
A number of those machines belonged to Northwest Hospital and Medical Center in north Seattle. Although AP reported patient care was not jeopardized due to the presence of backup systems, the attacks caused several other problems.
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