Man jailed for Hellfest cyberattack
A French man has been sentenced to a month in prison for a denial-of-service attack on Hellfest's online box office
News By | 29 October 2019
A computer scientist has been sentenced to a month in prison for hacking into the onsale for French metal festival Hellfest. On 9 October, the man took the festival’s ticketing servers offline by sending 46,000 simultaneous connections to its Weezevent-powered box office, a court in Bobigny, Paris, heard.
The man works in cybersecurity and is part of a group of hackers, but had no previous criminal convictions, according to 20 Minutes.
Found guilty of “fraudulent [activities] in an automated data-processing system”, the…
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