According to Dailytech.com

With the online alias "Acid" or, in other cases "Acid Storm", a man named John Schiefer admitted to "infecting and hijacking more than 250,000 PCs with malware so he could have access to PayPal records." The man "is the first person to be accused by the U.S. government under the federal wire tapping law of operating a botnet — a network of hijacked computers."

Schiefer was hired by multiple clients to service PCs, but ended up installing malicious code designed to steal usernames and passwords for online banking accounts.

And then…

Schiefer recently agreed to plead guilty to four counts of fraud and wiretap charges that could send him to federal prison for 60 years with fines up to $1.75 million USD according to the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney’s office.