Judge Gives Maryland Man 3 Months In Hacking Case

CHICAGO (AP) — A Maryland man cried in a Chicago federal courtroom when a judge sentenced him to three months in prison for running a hacker-for-hire service that shut down websites and affected people around the world.
Zachary Buchta of Fallston, Maryland, pleaded guilty in December to one count of conspiracy to commit damage to protected computers. Buchta admitted in a plea agreement that he was a founding member of two hacker groups that charged a $20 fee to target anyone for online har