most of you won't even read so here is an excerpt:
Detective Superintendent Brian Hay, of the Fraud and Cyber Crime Squad, says the case – which sees Duffy facing numerous charges – “challenged the mythology” and the romanticism that surrounds hackers.
When you get the imagery that a skilled hacker has to be in a major city with a big bank of computers and sophisticated file servers surrounding them in a little bungalow … we are talking about a 21-year-old living with his mother and family with a laptop.
While Duffy may have accessed all sorts of information, he was primarily interested in just one thing: IP addresses. The story goes, Duffy created a paid service that would allow other gamers to access Riot‘s database of player IPs. This information could later be used to launch DDOS attacks against the victims, knocking them offline and generally causing a nuisance. Police claim that Duffy received more than 800 separate payments for access to the information, in the past month alone. (Police have not confirmed whether or not Duffy also carried out DDOS attacks.)
LMAOI! some technology company, they cannot even protect their own server security, and yet these same brilliants scientists give their mmr-from-heaven system of advanced mathmatical matchmaking.
what a joke.