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American Hacker Got 10 Years Prison for DDoS Attack on Hospitals

U.S citizen sentenced 10 years in prison for Massive DDOS attacks against 2 hospitals on U.S Boston Children’s Hospital and Wayside Youth and Family Support  Network in 2014. Martin Gottesfeld, 32, convicted for launching massive DDoS attacks and the attack was launched more than a week that caused the facility to spend $18,000. He was installed a malicious software on 40,000 network routers that was controlled by his home computer and used those compromised computers to launch the DDOS attack. Gottesfeld is one of the  member  of  international  hacking group, behalf of the group he  was launched  this attack on Boston Children’s Hospital . The attack flooded 65,000 IP addresses used by Boston Children’s Hospital and several other area hospitals with junk data intended to make those computers unavailable for legitimate communications.  According to  Router  report, Federal officials in August found him guilty of two counts, including conspiracy to dama