Prisons around the world this year made way for techie criminals alongside the more garden variety murderers, thieves, and schemers.
Here's a rundown of those who got sent to the slammer this year for tech-related crimes (based on a compilation of reports from the IDG News Service and sister sites):
Hacking the government
A Pennsylvania man who hacked into multiple corporate, university, and government computer networks and tried to sell access to them, including supercomputers from a U.S. national security laboratory, was sentenced in December to 18 months in prison.
Andrew Miller, 24, pleaded guilty in August to one count of conspiracy and two counts of computer fraud for actions committed between 2008 and 2011, when he was part of the Underground Intelligence Agency hacking group, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Miller asked an undercover FBI agent in 2011 for $50,000 in exchange for access to two supercomputers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, according to the DOJ.
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