I am surprised I didn’t think of this! 
This security consultant was not satisfied with a high bill rate so he installed Trojans on his clients machines and stole their PayPal usernames and passwords. He had command of a 250,000 node botnet according to authorities so he must have had a lot of clients.
“John Schiefer was an information security professional who betrayed the trust that both his employer and society placed in him,” Assistant U.S. Atty. Krause said.
Now does anyone question why you don’t hire hackers??
According to the LA Times he worked for 3G Communications Group most likely running there assessment services there. I just hope he wasn’t a CISSP or someones head might explode. Oh wait, he might be.
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