Feds Charge Two In Lizard Squad Investigation
Summary: The U.S. Justice Department charged two 19-year-olds, Zachary Buchta of Fallston, Maryland and Bradley Jan Willem Van Rooy of Leiden, the Netherlands, with conspiring to cause damage to protected computers as alleged core members of Lizard Squad and PoodleCorp. Prosecutors say they ran attack-for-hire services that facilitated thousands of denial-of-service attacks, trafficked stolen payment card data for thousands of victims, and operated phonebomber.net, a $20-per-month service that called targets hourly with pre-recorded threats.
Why it matters: The complaint describes a card shop holding roughly 347 pages of payment card data at about ten records per page, and the Poodlestresser service drew much of its firepower from an API set up by the operators of vDOS - an attack-for-hire business whose own user database later surfaced. The conspiracy charge carries a maximum sentence of ten years in prison.
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