08 November 2018
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League of Legends was one of the games targeted by DerpTrolling DDoS attacker Austin Thompson
DerpTrolling 'brains' Austin Thompson faces up to ten years in prison over DDoS campaign
A 23-year-old from Utah has pleaded guilty to launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on a number of popular gaming services in 2013 and 2014. Charged with causing Damage to a Protected...
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