Cyclist found guilty in drug lab hacking case

US CYCLIST Floyd Landis has been given a 12 month suspended sentence for his role in a hacking attack on France's sports anti-doping laboratory in 2006.

Landis had won the 2006 Tour de France but was stripped of his victory over doping allegations. According to the Wall Street Journal he has been sentenced to the 12 month suspended prison term following the close of the investigation into the attack.

Landis's former trainer, Arnie Baker got the same sentence from the French court, despite it not being able to directly link them to the hacking. The court thought that since they had benefited from the hacking they could not be allowed to deny any role in the attack, which is what they had claimed. The verdict can be appealed within 10 days.

Also sentenced was Alain Quiros, who admitted hacking into the laboratory's computers. He got a sentence of six months in prison plus a fine of €4,000.

French investigators had found that Quiros used a trojan horse virus to access files, which were then shared on Baker's web site, having apparently been doctored, as evidence against the quality of the work done in the lab.

The hacker has quite the colourful CV, and on the same day was also convicted of an attack on Greenpeace computers on behalf of workers at French power giant Electricité de France SA.

The power company was fined €1.5m and ordered to pay damages of €500,000 to Greenpeace in compensation. µ