Thompson Austin (Austin Thompson)

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2019: 27 months of prison for DDoS attacks on Sony

At the beginning of July, 2019 the 23-year-old hacker from the State of Utah Austin Thompson was sentenced to 27 months of prison and payment of a penalty in the amount of $95 thousand for a series of DDoS attacks for game servers of Sony and other companies.

Earlier Thompson pled guilty of hacker attacks on Sony Online Entertainment (afterwards the company was renamed into Daybreak Game), made in 2013. In addition to Sony, Valve Microsoft the Steam, Xbox, EA, Riot Games, Nintendo, Quake Live, DOTA2 and League of Legends servers underwent the attacks.

Austin Thompson  confirmed that Twitter blog of group of adherents of DerpTrolling through which warned about the preparing attacks and told about their progress conducted.

The hacker was given 2 years of prison for DDoS attacks on Sony

The hacker arrested in the summer of 2018 will begin to serve sentence in one of the American prisons on August 27 the 2019th.

In the USA and Finland the conviction was also pronounced to two members of the Lizard Squad grouping who also undertook DDoS attacks on Daybreak Game in 2014.

Because of DDoS attack of the company and individuals are lost in millions of dollars every year — the prosecutor of the USA Robert Brewer said. — We aim to make responsible hackers who purposefully undermine Internet access.

As notes ZDNet, Austin Thompson created tradition in hacker community to attack game servers during Christmas holidays. Cybercriminals explained the intentions with the different reasons, including that people spent more time with families. Some attacks were carried out "for fun" and in order that "spoil all a holiday", writes the edition.

In 2014 DDoS attacks on game services were made by the Lizard Squad grouping, in 2015 — Phantom Squad, in the 2016th — R.I.U. Star Patrol. In the 2017th the attacks from several loner hackers are recorded.^[1]

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