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raverbashing on Jan 12, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Statement regarding the ongoing Sourcehut outage

> it comes with some risk of being criminally prosecuted

Has there been actual cases of prosecution?

dewey on Jan 12, 2024 | [–]

One recent example would be Zeekill, who ran a lot of DDoS attacks:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/02/finlands-most-wanted-hac...

o11c on Jan 12, 2024 | | [–]

Specifically, have there been cases of prosecution for those who hire the services? All of the links given so far appear to be for operators.

wildrhythms on Jan 12, 2024 | | [–]

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-operator-illegal-boote...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/criminal-charges-filed-los-an...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/individual-pleads-guilty-part...

Propa_ganda on Jan 12, 2024 | [–]

Most of lulzsec, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LulzSec

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