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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
DDOS != double-down on slashdot
Kamyar "The Streisand" Jahanrakhshan is more famous than ever!
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.