Teenage Hacker who made PS400000 using Virus is Imprisoned for 2 Years

Computer hacker Adam Mudd has been jailed for two years.

A teenager computer hacker was sentenced to two years in prison today for creating an application that was used in almost 1.7 million attacks across Greenland and New Zealand'.

Adam Mudd, now 20 years old Adam Muddd, now 20 years old, sold access to Titanium Stresser which allowed users to crash computers and websites through flooding them with data.

He invented the distributed denial-of service software, also known as DDoS, in his bedroom. He began selling it to criminals while at 16 years old.

The 1.7million attacks were carried out against more than 650,000 victims of which, just over 52,000 were located in the UK.

Victims included Xbox Live users, and gamers of the computer games Runescape and Minecraft.

Runescape was targeted 25,000 times, which is 1.4 percent of all attacks. In the last four years, the company invested almost PS6million to defend itself from hackers.

Mudd earned an amount of $307 298.35 and 259.81 Bitcoins that was worth an overall PS386,079 by the age of 18.

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He also used the username "themuddfamily" to carry out almost 600 attacks on 181 victims, all from his bedroom in Kings Langley.

He studied at West Hertfordshire College in 2014. It was the location of a major attack that may have affected 70 schools and universities nearby including the University of Cambridge.

The Old Bailey heard that he was a rogue student at four times that year. He later claimed that it was due to being mugged, but no action was taken.

This map shows the geographical locations of the 1.7million attacks carried out by hackers using Mudd's program around the globe. The key displays the number of attacks executed in specific countries.

In October of last year, Mudd was convicted of computer hacking and money laundering.

He was sentenced to two years in a young offender's institution.

The defendant was not empathetic when his sentence was handed down while his parents were seated in the court's well.

The judge denied a plea to suspend the sentence offered by the defense who claimed Mudd had been offered two weeks of unpaid work in cyber security. Minecraft servers