Hacker who took down entire nation's internet is jailed

By Rob Picheta, CNN



Daniel Kaye, 30, was arrested in December.

London (CNN) — A British hacker whose cyberattacks took the nation of Liberia offline has been jailed for almost three years.

Daniel Kaye launched a series of attacks on Liberian cell phone operator Lonestar in October 2015, which became so powerful they knocked out the west African country's internet the following year.

Kaye, 30, had been hired to carry out the attacks by a senior employee at rival operator Cellcom, Britain's National Crime Agency said in a statement, although there is no suggestion that Cellcom was aware of the activity.

He pleaded guilty to creating and using a botnet, a series of computers connected in order to attack systems, and possessing criminal property last month. Kaye was sentenced on Friday at Blackfriars Crown Court in central London to two years and eight months in prison.

While living in Cyprus, Kaye used a botnet he had created to trigger repeated distributed denial of service (DDoS) requests on Lonestar, causing the company to spend around $600,000 in remedial action.

The additional impact of customers leaving the network caused the company to lose tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue, the NCA added.

Following his arrest in February 2017, Kaye was extradited to Germany, where he also admitted to attacks on Deutsche Telekom that affected around 1 million customers in November 2016.

"Daniel Kaye was operating as a highly skilled and capable hacker-for-hire," Mike Hulett, Head of Operations at the NCA's National Cyber Crime Unit, said.

"His activities inflicted substantial damage on numerous businesses in countries around the world, demonstrating the borderless nature of cyber crime," he added. "The victims in this instance suffered losses of tens of millions of dollars and had to spend a large amount on mitigating action."

https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/01/12/uk/hacker-liberia-cyber-attack-jailed-gbr-intl/

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Temporary jail.....he's very useful to the nation.

Hehehe! Come and see ozil’s twin brother o!

I would have suggested his immediate pardon & release for potentially ruining people's businesses & disabling communications but the fact that he prevented millions from accessing porn is unforgivable.


His sentence should be tripled & he should be moved to a Liberian prison ASAP.


*spits

My dad calls my mom beautiful after 55 years of marriage, but I’m starting to suspect it’s because he forgot her name.

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Are you in Nigeria/London But wants to get things done in Uk?

kindly see this…
https://www.nairaland.com/4815910/nigeria-london-wants-get-things#72605396

is this not ozil

This is how yahoo bois are viewing this thread.

This is Mesut Ozil's estranged brother

Ozil

tsephanyah:
My dad calls my mom beautiful after 55 years of marriage, but I’m starting to suspect it’s because he forgot her name.

Sharrrap !

Ok

GavelSlam:
In Nigeria, some would say he's not guilty of any crime.

Some will say let's wait for NJC to decide first

If it happen in Nigeria, some nigga will said " in advance world, that guy will be rewarded with a very good job "



3years imprisonment no be joke ooo


Someone is already below me saying they should give him job... must he commit a crime before he would be notice that he is good at it... why can't he apply for the job in the first places

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But he no do anything o

Ma nigga!

why not make use of him

OZIL again

Pay don't crime.


A must read for all:
https://www.nairaland.com/4957440/12-bible-verses-conquer-lust

Hacker for life

Glo has been doing this deliberately. . . Adenuga deserves serious gun injuries.

Glo has been doing this deliberately. . . Adenuga deserves serious gun injuries.

A black man will get 30yr