UK: Youth Sentenced for Mass e-Mail Attack
An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
A British teenager has been given a two-month curfew and made subject to electronic tagging after admitting a mass email attack against a major insurance company which had earlier sacked him.More here.
David Lennon admitted sending around five million emails over a five-day period in 2004, leading to the collapse of the Domestic and General Group's mail server, which processed company emails in Britain, France, Germany and Spain.
A youth court in Wimbledon, southwest London, was told the disruption had cost the company around 30,000 pounds (44,000 euros, 57,000 dollars).
The emails purported to come from employees and the head of Microsoft, Bill Gates. They also contained a quote from supernatural film "The Ring".
posted by Fergie @ 8/23/2006 02:33:00 PM
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