The guy probably would have gotten away with a fine, but he stepped over the jerk line and into an actually doing real damage area and doing something that has gained a lot of attention over the year with setting up a targeted cyber attack.
This is more about making an example of him then anything else and showing that they're taking his actions seriously.
I honestly don't have that much of a problem with the sentence.
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