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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 09 2018, @07:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the WOW! dept.

World of Warcraft attacker jailed in US

A World of Warcraft gamer has been sentenced to jail in the US for carrying out a cyber-attack that interfered with the service in Europe. Calin Mateias had been accused of flooding Blizzard Entertainment's computer servers with traffic between February and September 2010. He was said to have carried out the distributed denial of service (DDoS) assault to prevent rivals logging in. Thousands of players were caught up in the resulting disruption.

The Romanian citizen - who had been extradited to Los Angeles to face the charges - pleaded guilty in February to one count of causing damage to a protected computer. He has also paid $29,987 (£22,176) to Blizzard to cover the costs it racked up trying to repel the data deluge.

Calin Mateias carried out the DDoS attacks in 2010. He was indicted in 2004 for attacking Ingram Micro's online ordering system. That case was dropped by prosecutors "when Mateias was sentenced to one year in prison over the World of Warcraft affair."


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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday May 10 2018, @02:22AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 10 2018, @02:22AM (#677713) Journal

    I just called the courthouse in Marshall, Texas, and was reassured that "venue shopping" doesn't really happen in the United States. </sarcasm>

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