William Genovese Jr, from Connecticut, offered to sell a copy of
the stolen code on his website shortly after it was released onto
the internet in February 2004. He instructed buyers, including an
investigator from Microsoft and an undercover FBI agent, to pay $20
into a PayPal account in order to gain access to the code.
Genovese, 29, who used the handle 'illwill' online, was arrested
in November 2004 and charged with the unlawful distribution of a
trade secret. He was not charged with the initial theft of the
code, which is still under investigation.
According to reports, Genovese, who has 12 prior convictions,
three relating to computer crime, has now been sentenced to prison
for two years. He then faces three years of supervised release.
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