Mahalo vouches for criminal hacker in its midst
March 7, 2009 by NetCrunch
Filed under Cyber Crimes, Internet Security, Top Stories
The founder of young Internet search engine Mahalo explained on Thursday how a convicted hacker wound up a cherished member of their team.
Mahalo hired John Schiefer without being aware of his cyber crimes, and regretted seeing him sentenced on Wednesday to four years in prison, founder Jason Calacanis said in a message posted online.
Schiefer used “botnets,” armies of computers hijacked by using malicious software, to steal people’s identities and snoop on electronic communications, according to Los Angeles US attorney’s office spokesman Thom Mrozek.
