A British hacker who attacked the network of a Liberian telecommunications company was sentenced to 32 months in prison.
Daniel Kaye admitted to organizing denial of service attacks that affected customers of Lonestar MTN. He was hired by Cellcom, a rival African telecoms company, so it could poach dissatisfied customers, prosecutors said at a sentencing hearing in London.
Daniel Kaye arrives for sentencing at Blackfriars Crown Court in London, on Jan. 11.
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Judge Alexander Milne said it was a “cynical and financially driven attack on a legitimate business enterprise.”
The attacks overwhelmed the African country’s internet infrastructure, leading to outages across Liberia in 2016, in what prosecutors say was a demonstration of his ...