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Sasser Author Under Arrest, Say German Police

Posted by Hemos on from the mein-wormen dept.

Apogee writes "A number of german news websites, like n-tv, or the german yahoo news site (courtesy of the german press agency, lending this some credibility) (web sites in german) report that the programmer of the Sasser worm has been arrested by German police. The Sasser author is an 18-year-old man who was arrested on Friday in Rotenburg, Germany. With the Sasser worm being the latest among worms that spread like wildfire among unpatched windows boxes, and apparently also caused serious computer outages and cost to the economy, how will this be transformed into an indictment?" Update: 05/08 18:41 GMT by T : SexySas writes "As the German news site heise reports, the 18-year-old author of Sasser is responsible for Netsky, too. The German police is talking about 'a milestone in war against cybercrime'."

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  1. phatbot authors busted too by taran9000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    they were also arrested on Friday.

  2. Articles in English by metlin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is Reuter's take on this and the news release at Biz Ink.

  3. Re:Will he go on trial by Star_Gazer · · Score: 5, Informative

    Since both Sasser and Phatbot developers are native germans, they will never be extradited. German constitution luckily forbids it. Only foreigns can be extradited to other countries and only if they don't have to fear death penalty and will get a fair trial.

  4. Re:Not framed? by zazzel · · Score: 5, Informative

    Obviously, you don't know much about the german judicial system, nor about our police.

    The boy is already back at home (no risk of escape) until he'll be tried. He'll probably get probation, at most. He'll MOST probably be tries under juvenile laws, which have the overruling goal of "educating" young people.

    However, he'll be held responsible for the financial damages he's done.