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A teenaged hacker who almost made £400,000 by coding and selling a virus which was used to launch 1.7million hacking attacks on websites around the world is now facing jail.
Adam Mudd, who is now 20, lived with his parents in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, was more interested in online social status rather than the money brought in by selling his Titanium Stresser software which crashes users websites and computers by flooding them with data.
The computer science student started coding and distributing the denial of service, or DDoS, software to criminals when he was just 16-year-old. He started writing the program after being withdrawn from school to avoid bullying as he has Asperger syndrome.
He used the program to carry out 600 attacks on networks operated by schools, colleges, the universities of Cambridge, Essex and East Anglia and others.
From all these hacks, he received a total of £240,153.66 and 249.81 bitcoins - worth an overall £386,079. He was operating with the username themuddfamily.
Last October, Mudd admitted computer hacking and money laundering.
Adam Mudd, who is now 20, lived with his parents in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, was more interested in online social status rather than the money brought in by selling his Titanium Stresser software which crashes users websites and computers by flooding them with data.
The computer science student started coding and distributing the denial of service, or DDoS, software to criminals when he was just 16-year-old. He started writing the program after being withdrawn from school to avoid bullying as he has Asperger syndrome.
He used the program to carry out 600 attacks on networks operated by schools, colleges, the universities of Cambridge, Essex and East Anglia and others.
From all these hacks, he received a total of £240,153.66 and 249.81 bitcoins - worth an overall £386,079. He was operating with the username themuddfamily.
Last October, Mudd admitted computer hacking and money laundering.
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