Hacker Jailed for 2 Years After Xbox Live, Minecraft Attacks

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By Matt Porter

Adam Mudd, a teenager who set up a business which sold hacking software to various criminals, has been jailed for two years.

According to The Guardian, Mudd created the Titanium Stresser program when he was 16, which has since carried out over 1.7 million cyber attacks. Websites and companies affected include Microsoft as well as Xbox Live, TeamSpeak, and Minecraft.

Since he created the program, Mudd has made over £386,000 in both US dollars and bitcoins. The prosecutor, Jonathan Polany, said that there are over 112,000 registered users of Titanium Stresser, and that over 660,000 IP addresses have been attacked using it.

Mudd also carried out 594 distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks himself against 181 IP addresses between December 2013 and March 2015. Hacks affected multiple schools and colleges as well as local councils. Mudd explained that one of the attacks was after he had reported being mugged to his college, after which he claimed no action was taken.

Adam Mudd pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey, and was sentenced to two years in a young offender institution by judge Michael Topolski QC.

Attacks against video games and their companies are sadly quite common. In the past, PSN accounts have been hacked to make fraudulent charges, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook were all attacked by the same source back in 2013, and Ubisoft had usernames and email addresses stolen in the same year.

Matt Porter is a freelance writer based in London. Make sure to visit what he thinks is the best website in the world, but is actually just his Twitter page.

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