Europeans indicted in US hack attack
A US COURT has indicted two Europeans for allegedly launching Internet attacks against a number of retail sites.
Prosecutors allege that Lee Graham Walker of England and Axel Gembe of Germany carried out distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks on websites belonging to Rapid Satellite and Weaknees.
According to the US attorney's spokesman Thom Mrozek, Weaknees lost more than $200,000 due to the crippling security breach.
Walker executed the attacks utilising a network developed with Gembe, who also designed a computer worm known as Agobot. The two, who were indicted in absentia, face 15 years in prison if convicted.
The above-mentioned strikes were reportedly ordered by Jay Echouafni, the former owner of Orbit Communications.
The FBI believes that Echouafni may have fled to his native Morroco. According the law enforcement agency, the DDOS attacks ordered by Echouafni resulted in losses ranging from $200,000 to over $1 million.
Echouafni is considered to be armed and dangerous. µ
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Sorry, nothing is "breached" by DDOS, it only keeps regular customers from accessing the site.
Granted, there are ways of minimizing the impact, but even if you have multiple sites, redundant lines and several IP addresses to handle the load, you can still get shut off the Web.
But nobody ever got customer details from a DDOS attack, and nobody ever will.
Oh FBI, you are so american:
From the description:
"Race: White (North African)"