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FBI begins hunt for European retail hackers | | 2008/10/07 | | The US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has gone on the hunt for two Europe-based hackers who have made several attacks against online retailers, it has emerged.
According to the BBC, Lee Graham Walker from the UK and Axel Gembe from Germany are being investigated in connection with hacks perpetrated on a website selling satellite equipment in 2003.
The men are accused to denial of service attacks, which overloaded servers with traffic and resulted in service outages on multiple online retail sites – acts which strengthen the case for effective website monitoring software to respond to such events.
According to the FBI, the men are wanted for "one count of conspiracy and one count of intentionally damaging a computer system". If convicted these men could expect to face up to 15 years in prison.
Both the companies who fell victim to the attacks – Rapid Satellite in Miami and Weaknees in Los Angeles – are believed to have suffered several hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses due to the attacks in October 2003. |
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