Teenager sentenced for biggest ever cyber attack
A British teenager has been sentenced to community service for
masterminding in 2013 what was then described as the biggest ever
cyber attack. The distributed denial of service attack against
anti-junk mail group Spamhaus was so disruptive it threatened the
Linux system, which supports links between international networks.
Seth Nolan McDonagh pleaded guilty to all charges earlier, but
could not be named under UK law until he turned 18 this week.
Team Sky cyclist data "stolen"
Training data belonging to cyclist Chris Froome has been
accessed by hackers, according to Team Sky manager David
Brailsford. Speaking at a press conference this week, Mr Brailsford
said the loss of the data had been discovered on Monday, after
Froome took the lead in the first week of the Tour de France. He
added that the team is consulting legal advisers but refused to be
drawn on who he suspected was behind the hack.
