Teen hackers jailed after live streaming cyber attack on TfL
The hackers forced TfL offline after gaining high-level access and stole data from millions of customers, prosecutors said.
- On Wednesday, hackers Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 18, appeared at Woolwich Crown Court to face sentencing for a cyberattack on Transport for London that caused a £39 million loss.
- Members of the group Scattered Spider, the pair gained "highest privileged access" to TfL systems, which prosecutors described as "the keys to the kingdom," forcing the network to shut down critical infrastructure.
- Prosecutors reported £29 million in operational damages and £10 million in lost income, while the breach forced all 28,000 TfL employees to attend offices to manually reset passwords.
- Flowers also admitted targeting US healthcare firms SSM Health Care Corporation and Sutter Health, though his defense counsel described the 18-year-old as an "immature child trying to show off online."
- Presiding over the two-day sentencing hearing, Mr Justice Turner will determine punishment as authorities emphasize the "catastrophic damage" the pair could have inflicted on essential national infrastructure.
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Young British hackers jailed for London transport cyberattack
Thalha Jubair, 20, from east London, and 18-year-old Owen Flowers from England's West Midlands were each handed five-and-a-half-year sentences at London's Woolwich Crown Court. The pair pleaded guilty last month to hacking Transport for London's (TfL) network between August 31 and September 3 2024, gaining access to around seven million customers' names and contacts. Sentencing the men, judge Mark Turner said their actions had caused "very serio…
British hackers jailed for London transport cyberattack costing nearly $40 million to fix
LONDON: Two British hackers behind a 2024 cyberattack on London's public transport body which cost £29 million ($39.16 million) to fix were sentenced on Thursday to a total of 11 years in jail.Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 18, pleaded guilty last month, on what would have been the first day of their trial, to hacking Transport for London (TfL) in August and September 2024, which had been blamed on hacking collective "Scattered…
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