US Charges Russian With Launching 2008 Amazon DoS Attack

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 21, 2012 @09:40AM from the break-open-the-emergency-thumbscrews dept.

The Seattle Times reports that Dmitry Olegovick Zubakha, "A Russian man believed to be behind cyberattacks on Seattle-based Amazon.com and other online retailers in June, 2008 has been arrested in Cyprus, says U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan." Along with a partner, Sergey Vioktorovich Logashov (still at large), Zubakha apparently also undertook, and later bragged about, attacks on Priceline and Ebay. After extradition, he's expected to face trial in the U.S. for possession of illegal access devices, conspiracy, and aggravated identity theft.

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Illegal access devices? by tragedy · 2012-07-21 09:50 · Score: 5, Insightful

What's an "illegal access device"? I always worry about the criminalization of tools.
1. Re:Illegal access devices? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-21 10:09 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  He had 15 cereal whistles.