Remember the Dutch h*cker who almost broke the internet with the biggest cyber attack in 2013? Well news report says that the Dutchman has escaped prison even after most of his jail term were suspended and he was to spend barely 8 months in jail.
The h*cker, Sven Olaf Kamhuis, 39, was arrested in April 2013 by Spanish authorities in Barcelona based on an European warrant for launching massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Spamhaus that peaked at over 300 Gbps.
Kamphuis' lawyers however claimed that a British teenager under the alias of "Narko" was responsible for the attack.
Kamphuis was also accused of carrying DDoS attacks not only on Spamhaus but also its partners in the U.S., U.K., Netherlands and he was even accused of hacking into an IP address and also taking part in a criminal organisation. All these charges amounted his jail sentence to a total of 240 days.
According to Dutch news reports, Kamhuis served 55 days on remand after his extradition from Spain in 2013 to the Netherlands and so the judges suspended his remaining 185 days sentence.
Why Spamhaus?
Spamhaus is a non-profit group based in Geneva and London that tracks spam and cyber-related threats, creates blacklists of those sites and then sells them to Internet Service Providers
Spamhaus blamed the DDoS attack on Dutch hosting company CyberBunker which Spamhaus blacklisted only to be attacked just after the blacklist.
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H*cker escapes jail , Cyber Criminal jail break, Spamhaus and the Kamphuis case