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Friday, 21 February 2014
Anonymous hacker “Jacob Wilkens” responsible for the
denial-of-service attack against Koch Industries was sent on 24 months of
probation through the decision of The U.S. District Court, Eastern District of
Wisconsin, in addition court ordered him to pay
$110,932.71 for the damage caused in DDoS attack.
Jacob pled guilty to take down the servers of Angel Soft
bathroom tissue (which is based in Green Bay) with other members of the
hacktivist collective Anonymous, the attack took place in February and March of
2011.
As a result of the DDoS Attack, Koch Industries servers was
down for three days which caused losses of hundred-thousand dollars.
For the same attack, Christopher Sudlik was ordered to pay
and he also sentenced to 36 Months of probation.
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