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PayPal DDoS attackers plead guilty, some may walk free |
December 06, 2013
Anonymous members, charged with a distributed denial-of-service attack on PayPal, entered a plea Thursday that could see some of them walk free at sentencing next December.The 14 persons were charged in July, 2011 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose division for a DDoS attack on PayPal’s servers in December 2010 in retribution for the payment processor’s decision to terminate the donation account of whistle-blower site WikiLeaks.They were charged with conspiring among themselves and with other known and unknown persons to commit “intentional damage to a protected computer” under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.A DDoS is an attempt to make a website inaccessible by overloading it with requests and disrupting the target server.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2070060/paypal-ddos-attackers-plead-guilty-some-may-walk-free.html#tk.rss_all
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