DDoS game servers, hackers sentenced to two years in prison
Young Austin Austin hacker will face a sentence of 2 years in prison for the onions because DDoS attack has been implemented since 2014
Austin Thompson, the famous name behind many popular DDoS attacks targeting gaming servers in the late 2013 and early 2014, was sentenced to two years in prison and paid at least $ 95,000. compensation for Daybreak Game Company, formerly known as Sony Online Entertainment.
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A DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack can be determined when an individual or a group of hackers attempts to crash an online service or server by flooding it with extreme virtual traffic. big from many different sources. After the targeted system will not be able to handle such large traffic and crash, real access will no longer be accepted, causing great damage to businesses and system owners. there.
After a long stubborn time, 23-year-old Austin Thompson, finally voiced responsibility for the DDoS attacks that took place in November 2018. The young hacker admitted he was an important member of DerpTrolling. , a group of emerging hackers, have been accused of causing quite a number of hit cases aimed at large organizations and businesses.
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According to the content from the official press release, Austin Thompson, often uses the @DerpTrolling Twitter account to announce that an attack is imminent, and then post it on the screenshot. or other images showing the victim server crashed and were taken down after the attack to show off the prestige. However, this also contributed to his fall into the police's sights.
Austin Thompson is currently in detention, but according to a court statement, the hacker will officially serve on August 23, with a two-year "removal schedule" at the federal prison. Under US law, the maximum penalty for this sentence can be up to ten years in prison with a fine of $ 250,000.
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In related information, prosecutors in the US and Finland have also completed convictions for two members of the Lizard Squad group, who have also tried to implement major targeted DDoS attacks. Enter Daybreak Game Company in 2014.
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