DDoS Attacker Will Spend Two Years In Prison

[Demon_Skeith]

One of the men behind a series of 2013 attacks on games like League of Legends and DOTA 2 has been sentenced to 27 months in jail, and must pay $95,000 in restitution to another of his victims.

Via Polygon, in a statement released by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California the culprit is named as 23 year-old Austin Thompson, who earlier this year plead guilty to charges of “Damage to a Protected Computer”.

Thompson ran the Twitter account “DerpTrolling”, and his case actually revolved around Daybreak Games, formerly Sony Online Entertainment, who he must pay the $95,000 to after it was determined that’s how much revenue the company lost between December 2013 and January 2014 during his attacks.

He got off relatively lightly; the maximum sentence he could have faced is a $250,000 fine and ten years in prison.

 

[froggyboy604]

$95,000 is a very expensive fine to pay, but it is less than $250,000.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I can't believe that is the amount of money they lost during that period.

 

[froggyboy604]

I think the companies who got attacked lost a lot of money from the DDoS Attacker damaging their reputation from DDoS their online games, and requiring the technical support and security staff to work overtime to fix problems caused by the DDoS, and hire more workers to deal with the DDoS problems caused by the attacker.

 

[Claraviolet]

That's expensive.
Well, he should have thought of this before doing such things. I just hope others would back off after seeing this