| , , 9 janvier 2013 | , , 23 aout 2015 |
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| The US ambassador to Algeria, wrote on her account, "that computer crimes are not capital crimes and are not punishable by the death penalty" | , , 1er octobre 2015 |
Support on social networks [ ] In 2015, a Tunisian website posted a rumor that Bendelladj had been sentenced to death.
29| Once he took control of an account, he emptied them | He was tried in Atlanta where he pleaded guilty on June 25, 2015 |
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| A petition was launched demanding that the and intervene for his release | He earned the nickname "Smiling Hacker" due to the smile on his face during his media presentation on all the photos taken after his arrest even when handcuffed |
He was on the top 10 list of the most wanted hackers by and the for allegedly embezzling tens of millions of dollars from more than two hundred American and European financial institutions, via a computer virus, the "SpyEYE Botnet" that infected more than 60 million computers worldwide mostly from the United States , which he developed with his Russian accomplice Aleksandr Andreivich Panin, aka "Gribodemon", to steal banking information stored on infected computers.
30| , , du 25 mai 2013 | , , 23 Apr 2016 |
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| In their report, the estimated the "SpyEye" virus had stolen approximately a billion dollars | Despite much false information on the internet Bendelladj did not get sentenced to death, and claims saying he donated any money to charity are almost impossible to verify |