Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/08/04/canadians_throw_the_book/
Canadians throw the book at MafiaBoy hacker
I was a teenage DDoSser
Posted in Music and Media, 4th August 2000 09:54 GMT
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Mafiaboy, the teenage Canadian hacker, was slapped with 64 new charges, when he walked into a Montreal court yesterday.
The 16-year-old boy, from Quebec, denied "mischief" charges relating to a fusillade of DDoS attacks in February against big hitter Web sites such as Yahoo! and eBay.
Mafiaboy was charged in April with two mischief charges relating to a DdOS attack on CNN.com, also in February. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police say his computer skills are "far from extraordinary".
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