U.K. Man Avoids Jail Time in vDOS Case
Summary: Jack Chappell, arrested at 19 in Stockport by West Midlands Police, pleaded guilty to using the vDOS attack-for-hire service to launch more than 2,000 DDoS attacks against Amazon, BBC, BT, Netflix, T-Mobile, Virgin Media and Vodafone between May 1, 2015 and April 30, 2016, and attacked his own school at least 21 times. Judge Maurice Greene suspended a 16-month sentence at a young offenders institution, citing Chappell's youth and autism diagnosis, and ordered 20 days of rehabilitation activity instead.
What's compelling: vDOS ran more than 150,000 attacks and made over $600,000 in just two of its four years, yet its alleged co-creators and Chappell have drawn no custodial time - a pattern Krebs notes across the Kaye and Mirai cases, where Rutgers spent between $3.5 million and $9 million defending against attacks by a co-author who awaits sentencing.
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