'Dr. Chaos' Hacker Gets 7 Years

A former computer systems administrator who called himself "Dr. Chaos" has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for hacking into computers and causing power failures in Wisconsin.

Joseph D. Konopka, 29, pleaded guilty to 11 felony charges of conspiracy, counterfeiting software, arson and interfering with computers. Konopka and six juvenile members of his group "Realm of Chaos" were responsible for 28 power outages and 20 other service interruptions in Wisconsin in 1999.

Konopka is already serving a 13-year federal sentence for a chemical weapons possession conviction in 2002. He was storing cyanide near a Chicago subway.

He also was ordered to pay $436,000 in restitution and spend three years on supervised release after prison. The power outage damages totaled about $800,000.

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