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posted by Fnord666 on Monday June 25 2018, @09:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the enjoy-your-vacation dept.

The Bitcoin Baron, a self-proclaimed vigilante responsible for DDoS attacks on civic networks in Madison, Wisc., San Marcos, Texas, and other sites in 2015, has been collared in Phoenix and sentenced to serve 20 months in prison.

The conviction and sentencing is only for the former attack, in which Randall Charles Tucker, who was 20 at the time, disabled the City of Madison’s website for six days, crippled the 911 emergency communication system and degraded the emergency service dispatch system. He went on to boast about the attacks on social media, according to the court documents, and on Skype chats in his gaming community.

The attack’s motivation is unclear, but it came shortly after a fatal shooting of a 19-year-old unarmed black man by a Madison police officer sparked outrage. Police brutality soon became a recurring theme for Tucker.

[...] The hacker pleaded guilty in April of last year to one count of intentional damage to a protected computer, in Madison.

In addition to the jail time, U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes of the District of Arizona also ordered Tucker to pay $69,331.56 in restitution.


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday June 25 2018, @06:49PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday June 25 2018, @06:49PM (#698261)

    What kind of softies are you, not throwing the book at bad people ? Rehabilitation, redemption, reinsertion, right ? I say destroy the life of anyone committing any crime I am not likely to get caught committing ! Let them crawl in the sewers for a few years, and they'll find their way back to jail soon enough, proving me right that they were unredeemable ! Those guys are lucky I have stock in private prisons, otherwise it'd be bullet to the head at first offense !

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