By Priya Ganapati
Microsoft will pay $250,000 in reward to two informants who helped track down the creator of the Sasser worm.
July 8, 2005
After the creator of the Sasser Internet worm was convicted by a German court Friday, software giant Microsoft said the two individuals who helped track the “cracker” down will share a $250,000 reward, the first of its kind.
The money will come out of a $5-million antivirus reward fund Microsoft created in November 2003 with help from Interpol, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Secret Service.
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