Security News > 2011 > May > Teens sentenced for vicious attack on UK hosting firm

http://news.techworld.com/security/3279975/teens-sentenced-for-vicious-attack-on-uk-hosting-firm/ By John E Dunn Techworld 16 May 11 Two UK teens have been sentenced to a suspended prison term and community service for a vicious online campaign that caused an online hosting company to go out of business. The relatively lenient sentences handed to Zachary Woodham, 19, and Louis Tobenhouse, 18, were probably influenced by their guilty plea and youth for crimes that would have landed older offenders longer jail time. According to the Metropolitan Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU), using the online nom de plume ‘Colonel Root’, Woodham attacked small hosting firm Punkyhosting over a number of weeks, hacking into its servers with such severity that the company was unable to continue operating. A police raid on his Brighton home and subsequent investigation connected his activity to Tobenhouse and the pair’s targeting of a number of other hosting companies and online casinos. Thousands of stolen credit card details were also discovered, which Woodham used to pay for access to premium rate chatlines which he owned, a convenient way of laundering the stolen proceeds. [...]

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