British hacker due for sentencing over public service DDoS attacks

A 51 year old man is facing a lengthy prison sentence in the United Kingdom after admitting to a series of distributed denial of service attacks against social housing, social services and crime prevention websites.

Computer Weekly reports that Ian Sullivan, 51, of Bootle, Merseyside carried out targeted DDoS attacks that led to more than 300 websites being made inaccessible to their users. The attacks, that date back to 2013 were targeting a number of business and public service website, including multinational banks and social housing websites.

British hacker due for sentencing over public service DDoS attacks