This young hacker created a malware that spreads itself through instant messages. When you send it the hacker is able to view credit card numbers and copy them. The consequences could be that they will lose all their money because he opened the link, he didn’t know what it led to, but he shouldn’t have opened it. Now the 19 year old has all their information.
An American employee of a company turned the company’s computers into a network of virtual robots, he makes extra money by doing this. He uses a botnet that infects personal computers all over Europe. His results were a sentence of three and a half years in prison. These actions affected the employer by infecting personal computers.