An Arizona man who once styled himself as a hacktivist “ Bitcoin Baron”has been condemn to prisonfor a stagger denial - of - service attack against the metropolis of Madison , Wisconsin ’s computer networks . According to the Department of Justice , the onset “ crippled ” the city ’s emergency communication system , make “ wait and outages in the ability of emergency respondent to connect to the 911 center . ”
Randall Charles Tucker was condemn to 20 months in prison on Tuesday following a guilty plea to one reckoning of designed damage to a protect figurer . Tucker take on to launching several DDoS attacks in 2015 against urban center websites , include Madison . The Justice Department says Tucker boasted about the attempt on societal culture medium , where he called himself “ Bitcoin Baron . ”
The Madison incident is n’t the only DDoS flack assign to Tucker . The Observer report the Bitcoin Baron claimed responsiblity fora variety of online attacksagainst widely - run target , including an Oklahoma police department , IRC chat room and a children ’s hospital . In one New World chat transcript obtained by the newspaper , Bitcoin Baron complain that member of Anonymous “ keep stealing mycredit ” after the Madison attack was attributed to the radical .
In the end , it seems Twitter gripe is what wreak the self - glorify baron down . After a six - month investigation into cyberattacks on Arizona authorities systems , the state ’s Department of Public Safety saythey constitute tweetsfrom other hackers that referred to the Bitcoin Baron as Randy Tucker and said he had “ no skill . ”
In addition to the prison sentence , Tucker has been ordered to ante up $ 69,331.56 in restitution to the dupe of his attack .
[ Engadget ]
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