I find it very unlikely the harassing went on for months before the victim had to talk to his bosses about what was going on. I'm pretty sure I'd have to explai

I find it very unlikely the harassing went on for months before the victim had to talk to his bosses about what was going on. I'm pretty sure I'd have to explain myself pretty much the same day, if not minute, if co-workers started receiving lewd emails from me. Once he did that, they hired some professionals and I imagine they figured out pretty quickly what was going on. So I highly doubt there was much time between the start of the harassment to the detection of the culprit. Once the found the 'problem', they could have just changed the encryption to WPA2, optionally punched the guy in the face, and be done with it. If the actions of the hacker were so utterly horrible that they could have destroyed the victim's life, why would they let him continue doing it for months? It appears they kept monitoring the network until they had enough evidence to put the guy in jail. I don't think getting your WiFi hacked will destroy your life, but eighteen years in jail will.