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Man Used DDoS Attacks On Media To Extort Them To Remove Stories (itwire.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the cease-and-desist dept.

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

15 of 34 comments (clear)

  1. Re:No wonder slashdot is slow... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    DDOS != double-down on slashdot

  2. and now... by viperidaenz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kamyar "The Streisand" Jahanrakhshan is more famous than ever!

  3. How fucking stupid can you get ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    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 ?

    1. Re:How fucking stupid can you get ? by Kellamity · · Score: 2

      Yeah you write to them and tell them you did it, and then you expect not to get in trouble for it how exactly? Sounds like Canada let a real winner in there, at least they get to send him back to the U.S. Can the revoke his citizenship and send him back to his original home, or are they stuck with him now?

      The weirdest part it, it was several years after the articles were published. Who was still even finding them?

    2. Re: How fucking stupid can you get ? by Kellamity · · Score: 1

      Wouldn't it be easier to just change your name? You'd just have to avoid employers who did a proper background check (in which case, getting a few atricles off Google wouldn't matter anyway). Lolololol.

  4. Awkward by Purevoice · · Score: 1

    this guy shot himself in the foot and became more popular http://www.naijadailyfeed.com/

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  5. Re:I can't wait... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Is that you, Theresa May?

  6. Re:I can't wait... by teasea · · Score: 1

    you seem confused.

  7. Lost in a Crowd by Neuronwelder · · Score: 1

    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.

    1. Re: Lost in a Crowd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Actually that's what he's exploiting here. He's got past negative press against him published for years. It's probably hurting his ability to get a job. So now he's getting press about ummm him being an extortionist??? Wtf did he do before that he wants covered up so bad he would rather be known as an extortionist?

      Ohhh, 90+ CC fraud charges...high speed boat chase... who the fuck let this guy out of prison in the first place?

  8. Similar to how pro-net neutrality types work. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Similar to how pro-net neutrality types work. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      There was nothing humorus about it. Slashdot is a democrat liberal stronghold and the moderators are just trying to shut up conservative voices as all liberals do: through mockery and verbal abuse.

  9. Re:I can't wait... by donaldm · · Score: 2

    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.

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  10. Re:The only problem... by fibonacci8 · · Score: 1

    I know, every time I've tried typing it, the computer auto-corrects his name to Doljonijiarnimorinar.

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  11. Right to be forgotten by Headw1nd · · Score: 1

    If there were right to be forgotten protections in place like Europe, this poor man wouldn't have been driven to this /s