Masato Nakatsuji of Izumisamo in Osaka Prefecture was sentenced Wednesday by creating a data-destroying virus called Ika-tako (squid-octopus) that he uploaded to the Internet via files sharing software. Three people download the files and set off the virus in the hard disks of their computers. The presiding judge considered the act as an ingenious planned crime and sentenced the defendant who is on probation for similar crime to tasato Nakatsuji of Izumisamo in Osaka Prefecture was sentenced Wednesday by creating a data-wo years and six months in prison. And this represents the first time property destruction charges have been applied to a computer virus creator. The interesting part is that the defense lawyer rejected the accusation advancing that the virus did not damage the hard disks, but only made them temporarily unusable. The judge replied back saying the performance of the hard disks was damaged and the computer experts could not completely recover data in the infected computers.
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