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Man Used DDoS Attacks On Media To Extort Them To Remove Stories (itwire.com)
New submitter troublemaker_23 shares a report from iTWire: A 32-year-old man from Seattle who was arrested for mounting a series of distributed denial of service attacks on businesses in Australia, the U.S. and Canada, wanted articles about himself removed from various news sites, including Fairfax Media. According to an FBI chargesheet filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (Dallas Division), Kamyar Jahanrakhshan tried to get articles removed from the Sydney Morning Herald, a site for legal articles known as Leagle.com, Metronews.ca, a Canadian news website, CBC in Canada and Canada.ca. The chargesheet, filed by FBI special agent Matthew Dosher, said Jahanrakhshan migrated to the U.S. in 1991 and took U.S. citizenship; he then moved to Canada about four years later and became a permanent resident there. He had a conviction for second degree theft in Washington state in 2005 and this was vacated in August 2011; he also had a 2011 conviction for fraud and obstruction in Canada. In each case, Jahanrakhshan, who was deported back to the U.S. as a result of the Canada crime, launched DDoS attacks on the news websites and then contacted them. Further reading: Ars Technica
Must be some DDoS attack on slashdot by this fellow who is upset that a negative story about him is posted on /.
Kamyar "The Streisand" Jahanrakhshan is more famous than ever!
Didn't know who this guy was before, but now I sure know he's a scumbag. Great job, Andy!
You:re blackmailing several news organizations AND giving them your full name and complete details about yourself ?!?!?
This is even dummer than dirt.
How can so much stupidity be even possible after millions of years of natural selection ?
this guy shot himself in the foot and became more popular http://www.naijadailyfeed.com/
I love to blog http://www.naijadailyfeed.com
Is that you, Theresa May?
you seem confused.
From what I understand he is from Australia and attacked Australians and Canadian sites...
Too bad nobody will remember how to spell his name.
I'm replying to my own post! :)
the guy is from Seattle, I somehow read Sydney.
My prejudice against the FBI did the rest
With so much data on the Web, anything anybody writes about you would probably get drowned out. No need to get bent out of shape.
If you recall, liberal democrat pro-net neutrality extremists DDOS'd the FCC's web site in order to "protest" the move away from heavy handed government regulation that the Obama administration imposed on the industry and to forcefully prevent the millions of supporters of the rollback from expressing their support. No doubt this guy saw how well this strategy worked which is why he used it too.
Pirates get defended here because copying analog signals is not piracy. Quit misappropriating the word "pirate."
Ransomware authors? You must be thinking of some other site. Or you took a joke seriously.
Scammers are routinely denounced here...once again you probably got "woooshed" by a joke.
"Even even" if your next point was true it's because you are conflating the issue.
I can't wait to see the Slashdot users to line up to defend this criminal.
I am one person who hopes this guy get the full weight of the law thrown at him since I was one of the people affected by the DDoS attack but in my case, I could see what this scumbag was doing but could not legally do anything.
The actual DDoS attack did not affect my machine although it made any outside communication pretty slow to the point where it was just pointless surfing the WEB. I am not just blaming the idiot (why waste grey matter on remembering his name) but the people who let their PC's be taken over to be used in a botnet and it is not that difficult tracing those infected PC's back to their respective ISP's although it would be difficult do anything about them since some were in different countries including Russa, Germany, Thailand ... etc just to name a few.
There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.
Is this about Snowden? That man is truly a hero of humanity, no matter what the Americans say. It would be a great honor to host him in my country.
Florida Man is proud now that exists someone who makes him looks like a genius.
Kamyar Jahanrakhshan... you know, I really can't stand those Irish people.
Just in case the stories ever do go down
"A Vancouver man is accused of running an international credit card scam to finance his taste for the high life and interfering with a police investigation.
Kamyar Jahanrakhshan, 30, who is facing 113 charges, was first arrested in 2009 following a high-speed boat chase involving a bailiff hired by an aggrieved car dealership, police from Vancouver to Port Moody and the RCMP's Air One helicopter.
Following his arrest he faced two charges linked to the boat chase, but was also charged with 90 offences relating to credit card fraud involving banks in the U.K., Abu Dhabi and two banks in Australia, according to RCMP Const. Mike McLaughlin
Police alleged Jahanrakhshan ran a scam to make credit cards in his name and used them to shop at Lower Mainland luxury car dealerships, picking up BMWs, Cadillacs, Mercedes-Benzes and a boat worth $140,000.
"There was an allegation that hundreds of thousands of dollars in vehicles including high-end cars and boats had been purchased using multiple fraudulent credit cards usually involving information from banks overseas," McLaughlin said.
But after he was released, the RCMP allege, Jahanrakhshan contacted the same banks posing as a police investigator in order to obtain the evidence against him.
New charges
But the RCMP were watching him, and on Thursday the North Vancouver detachment announced nearly two dozen new charges would be laid, this time in relation to his alleged interference with the police investigation
"It looked as though he was trying to find all the evidence that the prosecution had before getting into court," McLaughlin said.
At least one stolen affidavit was recovered in Jahanrakhshan's apartment when North Vancouver RCMP executed a recent search warrant, he said.
Following the search, 21 new charges were laid against Jahanrakhshan, including:
Obstructing a police officer.
Obstructing justice.
Impersonation.
Fraud.
Possession of an instrument for forging credit cards.
Possession of a stolen credit card.
Using a stolen credit card.
Possession of stolen property.
It's not the first time Jahanrakhshan has run afoul of the law. The American citizen has been convicted of theft in Washington state and sued numerous times, by various litigants, including a Vancouver collection agency and the University of British Columbia."
Nothing of value was lost if people couldn't access that censored and agenda spewing shithole.
If there were right to be forgotten protections in place like Europe, this poor man wouldn't have been driven to this /s