Hack of Attack-for-Hire Service vDOS Snares New Mexico Man
Summary: A New Mexico man, John Kelsey Gammell, 46, has been charged in Minnesota with using the attack-for-hire service vDOS and other services to send a year's worth of DDoS traffic at Washburn Computer Group, a Minnesota company where he formerly worked. Investigators traced him through email addresses found in vDOS's hacked user and target databases, plus Yahoo and Gmail accounts and an AT&T phone number tied to taunting messages sent to the company during the attacks.
Bottom line: The case was built on a leaked vDOS customer database showing more than $600,000 in revenue and over 150,000 DDoS attacks, and prosecutors say Gammell also targeted at least a half-dozen other companies including several banks; the FBI says a lack of victims coming forward is what most limits pursuit of the service's other users.
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