British 'Spiderman' sentenced in massive German router attack

Daniel K, who is accused of having committed a cyber attack against Deutsche Telekom, covers his face as he sits in a courtroom before the verdict is announced in Cologne, Germany July 28. — Reuters

COLOGNE, Germany: A 29-year-old British hacker-for-hire was convicted by a German court on July 28 after he confessed to unleashing a cyber attack that knocked out the Internet for around 1 million Deutsche Telekom customers.

The regional court in Cologne handed the man, named only as Daniel K., a suspended sentence of a year and eight months for attempted commercial computer sabotage. The maximum sentence was up to 10 years, and prosecutors had asked for two years.