Utah Man Sentenced for Computer Hacking Crime: Austin Thompson of Utah received 27 months in prison for carrying out a series of denial-of-service computer hacking attacks against multiple victims. https://t.co/Yvljhgngc0

— FBI San Diego (@FBISanDiego) July 4, 2019

Six years later, DerpTrolling, the hacker who started the Christmas DDoS attacks trend, gets 27 months in prison.https://t.co/WMl0045I5Z pic.twitter.com/yuzWTlrXie

— Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi) July 4, 2019

Pro-tip: don’t be a jerk on the Internet https://t.co/GNQF5mgQZ4

— ? autenil (@autenil) July 4, 2019

Utah man, known as DerpTrolling on Twitter, gets 27 months in prison and ordered to pay $95K in restitution for DOS attack on a slew of online gaming companies, including Daybreak Games.https://t.co/ZtnmkUM3co

— Brian "Seeking New Opportunities" Crecente (@crecenteb) July 3, 2019

Squad, an infamous hacking group also made headlines in year 2014 by launching DDoS attacks against Microsoft's Xbox Live and Sony's PlayStation Network and knocking them offline during the Christmas holidays.
Several teenagers have since been arrestedand charged around the world

— REX (@REXHACK1) July 4, 2019

27 months in prison after 5 years of being shuttled from courtroom to courtroom, jail to jail.

So...

Sort of a "Distributed Denial of Freedom" attack, yes?

...

Appropriate.https://t.co/5GBYIWTVER

— Rev. Robert R. Ballecer, SJ (@padresj) July 5, 2019

27 months in prison and $98K fines for DDoSing online gaming companies. https://t.co/71ySWpiDRk

— Chris Wysopal (@WeldPond) July 4, 2019

23-Year-Old #DDoS Attacker Who Ruined Gamers' Christmas Gets 27 Months in Prison

Read more — https://t.co/5O6737IlY3

He has also been ordered to pay $95,000 in damages to Daybreak Games, previously known as Sony Online Entertainment.#DerpTrolling pic.twitter.com/9z9S7BInDy

— Swati Khandelwal (@Swati_THN) July 4, 2019

DDoS Attacker Who Ruined Gamers' Christmas Gets 27 Months in Prison #DDoS #CyberSecurity #cybersecurite #CyberAttack #cyberattacks #Hacker #hackers #cybercriminals #cybercrime #ITServices https://t.co/iguiuJ0xgh

— Brida IT Services (@bridaitservices) July 4, 2019

DDoS Attacker Who Ruined Gamers' Christmas Gets 27 Months in Prison #Ethereum #Blockchain #Crypto #Bitcoin https://t.co/4c1QlyiNdY

— jerinsantosh (@jerinsantosh) July 4, 2019

DOS 'Hacker' that targeted Sony Online Entertainment gets 27 months in jail https://t.co/uPKvsPDCsZ pic.twitter.com/9vSuirBpx3

— Kotaku UK (@Kotaku_UK) July 3, 2019

Utah Man Sentenced for Computer Hacking Crime: Austin Thompson of Utah received 27 months in prison for carrying out a series of denial-of-service computer hacking attacks against multiple victims. https://t.co/Yvljhgngc0

— FBI San Diego (@FBISanDiego) July 4, 2019

Remember the time I got swatted 5 1/2 years ago? Well the guy who doxed me & who DDOSed all the game servers is in jail now: https://t.co/kq4P7YuuZL pic.twitter.com/Se5HFZPHU7

— PhantomL0rd (@PhantomL0rd) July 4, 2019

Utah Man Sentenced for Computer Hacking Crime https://t.co/ybp25ooErU

— FBI San Diego (@FBISanDiego) July 3, 2019

Utah Man Austin Thompson Sentenced for Computer Hacking Crime
DDoS = prison time https://t.co/QZt7xt8qNY

— Kiss My Ass, Mobsters (@BootyOfLou) July 3, 2019

It’s all fun and games until someone goes to prison. https://t.co/56gruxGU2J

— xero sKill (@xerosKill1) July 5, 2019

I love it when DDoSers get justice. I remember how smug Lizard Squad was about never being caught and I see two of them recently got sentences as well. https://t.co/8G8sNtIjJm

— BikeMan (@BikeManStream) July 3, 2019

Do you remember a weekend in 2013 where PSN, Battle net, LoL and Dota 2 were down? The individual who organised those attacks (and many others) has finally been prosecuted.https://t.co/pj14NWxtx2

— Callie Pepper ?☠️ (@callieRansom) July 5, 2019

Austin Thompson, hacker in #DDoS attacks on Daybreak Games gets two years in prison:https://t.co/BaLJY2igd8 #DerpTrolling

— Dissent Doe, PhD (@PogoWasRight) July 4, 2019