| Teenage hacker 'Mafiaboy' gets eight months |
Teenage computer hacker "Mafiaboy" who jammed major Web sites has been sentenced to eight months in a detention centre.
Judge Gilles Ouellet said the sentence had to weigh the need for public security and punishment with rehabilitation.
The 17-year-old Montreal youth, who cannot be named, closed down sites such as Amazon, Dell and eBay, Yahoo! and CNN.
He pleaded guilty earlier this year to 58 charges related to attacks and security breaches of Internet sites in Canada, the United States, Denmark and South Korea in February 2000.
The denial-of-service attacks bombarded sites with thousands of simultaneous messages, which prevented legitimate users from accessing them for up to five hours.
Other charges involved illegal use of computers to help with the attacks. Those computers were located at various universities, including the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Massachusetts.
He was 15 at the time and faced a maximum sentence of two years of youth detention. An adult convicted of the same charges could receive a 10-year sentence.
At a sentencing hearing last month, the youth's parents' asked Ouellet to spare him from further detention.
Story filed: 21:52 Wednesday 12th September 2001
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