A Kazakh citizen was sentenced on Tuesday to more than four years in prison for hacking into Bloomberg L.P.'s computer system in an attempt to extort $200,000 from the business news service and its founder, Michael Bloomberg, now New York City's mayor.
U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood sentenced Oleg Zezev to 51 months in prison, one of the longest terms ever given for computer intrusion, federal prosecutors said.