Hacker Dubbed Bitcoin Baron Earns a 20 Months Sentence

Posted by Aida Martin on June 26th, 2018

An incompetent cyber-criminal has been given a 20-month punishment behind bars after DDoS-ing the networks of a Wisconsin city, provisionally taking out its 911 center.

According to the Department of Justice, Randall Charles Tucker, a 23, of Apache Junction, Arizona agreed out the attacks on the Madison City in the year 2015 as it is a part of a wider DDoS campaign against the various cities.

The noticed also includes, in addition to disabling the City of Madison’s website, the attack will cripple the city’s of the internet-connected emergency communication system, which causing delays and also outages in the ability of the emergency responders to directly connect to the 911 center. It is also corrupting the system which is used for automatically dispatch the adjoining unit to a fire, medical, or some other emergency.

It is very unclear that the motivation was in launching the attacks, although it came after a day of fatal shooting by a police officer in Madison.

However, the Tucker’s other exploits to saw DDoS the municipal computer systems in Phoenix suburbs Chandler and Mesa and also the user-generated video portal News2Share, the last in a bid to influence it to feature one of that videos.

These of the charges were supposedly dropped as part of the appeal deal.

The Tucker was very possessed of his crimes on social media by dubbing himself the “Bitcoin Baron,” and has reportedly for taken part in the hacktivist campaigns like Anonymous #OpSeaWorld.

However, the attempts of Tucker’s to represent himself as a moral supporter failed despondently. One of the incidents in the year 2015, he DDoS-ed the city and also the police websites of San Marcos in Texas which demanding a local policeman who had assaulted a female college student be fired and jailed. Previously, the cop had been sent to prison for two years.

Tucker also initiated an attack on one of the children’s hospital, that reportedly disfiguring it with the child pornography which might be true somewhat damaged his hacktivist identification.

Besides the jail judgment, Tucker was also ordered by the court to pay off compensation of more than ,000 to the victims of his attacks.

Source:- nortonsetup-online.com