Adam Mudd, a computer hacker has been imprisoned for two years.
A teenager computer hacker was sentenced to two years in prison today for coding a program that was used in nearly 1.7 million attacks across Greenland and New Zealand'.
Adam Mudd, now 20 Adam Muddd, now 20, sold access to the Titanium Stresser tool which let users crash computers and websites by flooding them with data.
He created the distributed denial-of-service software, also known as DDoS in his bedroom, and began selling it to criminals when at the age of 16.
The 1.7million attacks were executed against more than 650,000 victims - of which, just over 52,000 were located in the UK.
Victims included Xbox Live users, and players of the computer games Runescape and Minecraft.
Runescape was attacked more than 25,000 times, which is 1.4 percent of all attacks. In the last four years, the company has spent nearly PS6million to defend itself from hackers.
Mudd earned the sum of $307 298.35 and 259.81 Bitcoins, which was worth an estimated PS386,079 by the age of 18.
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He also used the username "themuddfamily" to conduct more than 600 attacks on 181 victims in his bedroom in Kings Langley.
He studied at West Hertfordshire College in 2014. It was the scene of a major attack that may have reached 70 schools and universities in the area, including the University of Cambridge.
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He was a rogue student at four times in the course of the year, and later claimed it was because he'd been mugged but no action was taken as the Old Bailey heard.
This map shows the locations of the 1.7 million attacks carried out worldwide by hackers using Mudd's software. The key shows the number of attacks that were carried out in particular countries.
Last October, Mudd was convicted of computer hacking and laundering of money.
He was sentenced to two years in a young offenders institution.
The defendant was not empathetic when his sentence was handed down as his parents were in the well of the court.
The judge denied a request to suspend sentence by the defence, who said Mudd had been offered two weeks of paid work in cyber security.
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