Ddos’er gets more than two years in prison for shutting down game services in 2013

A 23-year-old American who carried out DDoS attacks on gaming services during Christmas 2013 and early 2014 has been jailed for two years and three months. He admitted that he was the ddos’er behind the attacks that shut down game services.

The now 23-year-old man from the American state of Utah had targeted Xbox Live, PSN, Steam, Nintendo and other game services, the American Public Prosecutor said. He announced attacks via his Twitter account Derptrolling, after which he posted screenshots of how the services were offline. In addition to a prison sentence, he must pay $95,000 in damages to Daybreak Games, the company then called Sony Online Entertainment.

The man from the US was the first to carry out large-scale DDoS attacks during Christmas, but that was followed in the years after, ZDNet writes. The following year Lizard Squad did the same and in the years that followed there were attempts to shut down game services. The attacks are around Christmas, when a lot of people get new consoles and go online for the first time. As a result, attacks around that time attract extra attention.