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Wisconsin Man Sentenced After DDoS Attack on Koch Industries

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A Wisconsin man who joined an Anonymous hacker attack for one minute has been sentenced to two years of federal probation and ordered to pay $183,000 in restitution to Koch Industries. Eric J. Rosol, 38, admitted to federal prosecutors in taking part in the Feb. 28, 2011 DDOS (distributed denial-of-service) attack by the hacker group Anonymous, IT World reports. The attack on the Koch Industries website

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