The sentence comes in for a participant in <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Pump-and-Dump-Hacker-Gets-2-Years/?kc=EWKNLEDP09102008B">a high-tech stock fraud scheme</A> that involved hacking into U.S. brokerage accounts to make unauthorized purchases of thinly traded stocks to drive up the price. When the prices began to rise, hackers then dumped their own shares in the same stocks for a profit. The hack, pump and dump scheme hit at least 60 online stock traders and nine brokerage firms including TD Ameritrade, ETrade Financial, Firstrade Securities, ChoiceTrade, OptionsXpress, TradeKing and Terra Nova Financial.