UK Man Gets Two Years in Jail for Running ‘Titanium Stresser’ Attack-for-Hire Service
Summary: Adam Mudd, a 20-year-old from Hertfordshire, U.K., was sentenced to two years in prison today after admitting to three counts of computer misuse for creating and operating the DDoS-for-hire service 'Titanium Stresser.' U.K. prosecutors said the service was used in more than 1.7 million denial-of-service attacks worldwide, and Mudd built it at age 15 and earned more than $300,000 from it.
What's compelling: A single booter service built by a teenager powered over 1.7 million DDoS attacks touching most countries in the world, and the judge said Mudd would likely have received six years if tried as an adult without medical issues.
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