Hackers who crippled TfL systems sentenced to more than five years in prison

Two teenagers who hacked into Transport for London’s (TfL) computers, causing nearly £30 million in damages, have been jailed for five years and six months after admitting to carrying out the attack.Thalha Jubair, 20, from east London, and Owen Flowers, 18, from Walsall, both pleaded guilty at Woolwich Crown Court
Apart from the cost to TfL, the cyberattack caused considerable disruption for staff and passengers, as TfL took large swathes of its systems offline while each was inspect