Polnay said there were more than 112,000 registered users of Mudd’s program who hacked about 666,000 IP addresses. Mudd’s explanation for one of the attacks was that he had reported being mugged to the college, but claimed no action was taken. On one occasion in 2014, the college hacking affected 70 other schools and colleges, including Cambridge, Essex and East Anglia universities as well as local councils. The attacks on West Herts College crashed the network, cost about £2,000 to investigate and caused “incalculable” damage to productivity, the court heard. He admitted to security breaches against his college while he was studying computer science.
The court heard that the defendant, now 20, carried out 594 of the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against 181 IP addresses between December 2013 and March 2015. The court heard that Mudd, who lived with his parents, had previously undiagnosed Asperger syndrome and was more interested in status in the online gaming community than the money. “Where there are computers, there are attacks – in almost every major city in the world – with hotspots in France, Paris, around the UK,” he said. Mudd showed no emotion as he was sent to a young offender institution.ĭuring the two-day hearing, Jonathan Polnay, prosecuting, said the effect of Mudd’s hacking program was “truly global”. “It was a serious money-making business and your software was doing exactly what you created it to do.”
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“I’m entirely satisfied that you knew full well and understood completely this was not a game for fun,” he told Mudd. Topolski said the sentence must have a “real element of deterrent” and refused to suspend the jail term. He said the effect of Mudd’s crimes had wreaked havoc “from Greenland to New Zealand, from Russia to Chile”. The judge, Michael Topolski QC, noted that Mudd came from a “perfectly respectable and caring family”. Mudd pleaded guilty and was sentenced at the Old Bailey.
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