FBI Pulls Plug on Several Botnet Hackers

June 14, 2007 By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- More than 1 million computers - possibly yours, too - are used by hackers as remote-controlled robots to crash online systems, accept spam and steal users' personal information, the FBI said Wednesday. The government has no way to track down all the computers, both in the U.S. and elsewhere, that hackers have massed into centrally controlled collections known as botnets.

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