Judge Robert Kelly in US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Friday sentenced two hackers convicted of defacing Comcast’s website two years back to 18 months in federal prison.

According to federal prosecutors in Philadelphia, the two men – 20-year-old Christopher Allen Lewis from Delaware and 28-year-old Michael Paul Nebel from Michigan – have also been ordered to pay $89,778.13 each in restitution to Comcast.

Last month, an accomplice of these two men, a third hacker named James Black of Washington state, was sentenced to four months in prison and restitution of $128.577.

The hackers, who were part of a hacking crew called Kryogeniks, had earlier pleaded guilty of having deceived a Comcast employee into disclosing information that would allow them to access an email account used for maintaining IP addresses for comcast. net, which, at that time, drew nearly 5 million visitors a day.

After they subsequently managed to take over Comcast’s Domain Name System information, the hackers redirected visitors to their own website for several hours, greeting them with a message that bragged about their exploit. The message read: “KRYOGENICS Defiant and EBK RoXed Comcast. sHouTz to VIRUS Warlock elul21 coll1er seven.”

According to prosecutors, the May 2008 hijacking by the Kryogeniks group of hackers had cost Comcast $90,000.