University student gets 3 years' probation in cybercrime

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Carnegie Mellon University student who developed and sold malicious software through an online cybercriminal marketplace that allowed others to remotely control Google Android smartphones has been sentenced to three years' probation.

[...] he was spared incarceration after his defense attorney and prosecutors acknowledged his lack of a criminal record and efforts to use his prodigious computer skills constructively since he was charged in July 2015.

Culbertson is currently on leave from Carnegie Mellon, where he has completed his sophomore year studying electrical computer engineering, but hopes to continue his studies eventually.