The Chicago Tribune reports that a federal judge has sentenced a man to three months in prison for the part he played in a “hacker-for-hire” service that launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against websites and phone-bombed its victims. 20-year-old Zachary Buchta – who went by online handles including “pein”, “@fbiarelosers”, and ““@xotehpoodle” – was a member of the Lizard Squad and PoodleCorp hacking groups, which hijacked victims’ online accounts, sold stolen payment card details, and launched crippling DDoS attacks against corporate websites.

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