Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS
Summary: A 34-year-old Connecticut man, Martin Gottesfeld, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $443,000 in restitution for DDoS attacks on several Boston-area hospitals in 2014, and a 30-year-old U.K. man, Daniel Kaye, received 32 months for using a Mirai-powered botnet to crash large parts of Liberia's Internet access in 2016. Kaye was hired in 2015 to attack Lonestar, Liberia's top mobile and Internet provider, and was paid $10,000 for the attack, which court testimony alleged was ordered by the CEO of competitor Cellcom Liberia.
Why it matters: Kaye was paid $10,000 to take a country's Internet access offline, and the executive alleged to have ordered it was not the one sentenced - the operator was. The Gottesfeld case shows a DDoS campaign against hospitals carried a $443,000 restitution figure and a decade in prison, a concrete measure of how courts are now pricing these attacks.
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