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Teenage Hacker who made PS400,000 using Virus has been Imprisoned for 2 Years

Adam Mudd, a computer hacker, has been in prison for two years.



A computer hacker in the teen years who made nearly PS400,000 by creating a programme which was used in 1.7 million attacks spanning from 'Greenland to New Zealand' was jailed for two years on the day of today.



Adam Mudd, now 20, sold access to the Titanium Stresser tool which let users crash websites and computers by flooding them with data.



He invented the distributed denial of service, or DDoS software in his bedroom. He began selling it to criminals when he was in school, aged 16.



The 1.7million attacks were executed against more than 650,000 victims of which, just over 52,000 were in the UK.



Victims included Xbox Live users, and gamers of the computer games Runescape and Minecraft.



Runescape was targeted more than 25,000 times, 1.4 per cent of the total attacks, and in the last four years the company has spent more than PS6million trying to defend themselves from hackers.



Mudd made a profit of $307,298.35 and 259.81 bitcoins - worth an overall PS386,079 - by the time he was 18.



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He also used the username "themuddfamily" to perform more than 600 attacks on 181 victims all from his bedroom in Kings Langley.



One 2014 attack on West Hertfordshire College, where he was a student, was so large it could have impacted 70 nearby schools and universities, including the University of Cambridge.



He swore at his college four times that year, and then claimed that it was because he'd been mugged but no action was taken as the Old Bailey heard.



This map shows the geographical locations of the 1.7million attacks performed by hackers using Mudd's software across the world. The key displays the number of attacks that were carried out in particular countries.



Mudd admitted to computer hacking and money laundering in October last year.



He was sentenced to two years in a young offender's institution.



The defendant was not empathetic as his sentence was read while his parents were seated in the well of the court.



The defense had offered Mudd two weeks of paid work in cybersecurity and the judge denied their request to suspend the sentence.

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