http://www.majorgeeks.com/story.php?id=34604
The fall of a botnet hacker
How many spam emails can a botnet send in a day? How many servers does it take? Well, an Armenian Court has sentenced the creator of the Bredolab botnet, Georgiy Avanesov, to four years in prison, according to a report from the ARMENPRESS news agency. The 27 year of Russian man was found guilty of computer sabotage for starting a botnet operation in 2009 which was used to distribute denial-of-services attacks and for sending, get this, over 3.6 billion spam emails per day ( that's right, BILLION )!!