Two British members of the notorious GhostMarket online cybercrime forum have been sentenced for hacks that stole details of thousands of credit cards and forced an online hosting company to go out of business.
Prosecutors claimed that 19-year-old Zachary Woodham, who used the online handle “Colonel Root”, chose the Punkyhosting webhosting firm to be his victim entirely at random, redirecting church webpages to pornographic content.
Ultimately the attacks, which took place between April and May 2009, put the Punkyhosting company out of business. Woodham then sent a taunting email to Punkyhosting gloating about his attack.
Following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police Service’s Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), authorities raided Woodham’s Brighton home, seizing computer equipment. They also arrested Woodham’s 18-year-old accomplice Louis Tobenhouse.
Police found evidence that the pair had stolen thousands of credit card details, and had targeted online gambling…
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