26-03-2018 16:47 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Jailed hacker told to repay £69,000 or face two more years in prison

Adam Mudd, 21, was jailed last April for having developed the "Titanium Stresser" tool which the Old Bailey heard he rented out to cyber criminals, earning him more than £250,000.Mudd created the Titanium Stresser program when he was 16, and it was used to carry out more than 1.7 million attacks on websites and gaming servers.Companies affected by the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks which his tool made claimed they had to pay millions to mitigate against such attacks in the fu
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