Leading Members of Scattered Spider Sentenced in UK to 66 Months in Jail

Leading members of Scattered Spider sentenced in UK to 66 months in jail

A pair of young men were sentenced to 66 months in jail for committing a cyberattack on the Transport for London that brought the network’s operations to a standstill in 2024, the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency said Thursday. Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers were arrested at their homes in September 2025, barely a year after the attack, and pleaded guilty last month just as their trials were set to begin. Flowers was previously arrested in…

Teenage TfL hackers sentenced to years in prison following Scattered Spider attacks

Two UK men sentenced to 5 years and 6 months for the 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London, linked to the Scattered Spider groupPolice seized devices showing evidence of the TfL breach; Flowers was also mid‑attack on US healthcare firms SSM Health and Sutter Health at the time of arrestTfL reported $39M in damages; the NCA says the sentencing effectively dismantled Scattered Spider, with Microsoft confirming the arrests degraded the group’s o…

Young hackers jailed for devastating £39million TfL cyber attack

The pair were both part of the notorious Scattered Spider gang which was linked to last year's huge cyber attacks on M&S, Co-op and Jaguar Land Rover

UK Court Sentences Two Hackers in $115M Crypto Ransom Case

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Metropolitan Police’s City of London Police have announced prison sentences for two men tied to the “Scattered Spider” cybercrime group. Both defendants entered guilty pleas at their first court appearance and were later sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court. According to an NCA press release, the men pleaded guilty on June 22 and were sentenced on Thursday to a combined term of five years and six months …

Scattered Spiders sentenced, OpenAI builds an AI that breaks AIs, and Iran leans on ChatGPT

Two leading Scattered Spider members, Thaila Jubar and Owen Flowers, were sentenced to five years and six months for the 2024 Transport for London hack that knocked 148 systems offline, forced 27,000 password resets, stole customer data, and cost TfL £29 million, with wider losses estimated far higher; U.S. charges against Dubar remain unproven. Investigators also believe Russian hackers were behind last year’s crippling Jaguar Land Rover attack…