TEENAGE HACKER JAILED FOR MASTERMINDING ATTACKS ON SONY AND MICROSOFT

Adam Mudd was 16 when he created the Titanium Stresser program, which was used to carry out more than 1.7 million attacks on websites. He earned the equivalent of more than £386,000 in US dollars and bitcoins from selling the program to cybercriminals. During the trial he showed no emotion and he was sent to a young offender institution. 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. The Aspenger syndrome is a developmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication. Polnay,  the prosecuting said there were more than 112,000 registered users of Mudd’s program who hacked about 666,000 IP addresses. Among the targets was the fantasy game RuneScape, which had 25,000 attacks. Mudd pleaded guilty to one count of committing unauthorised acts with intent to impair the operation of computers. Ben Cooper, defending, said Mudd had been sucked into the cyber world of online gaming after withdrawing from school because of bullying.

Personally, I believe that the problems who had suffered the boy all throughout his life have greatly influenced with the crimes he has committed. Because of his disease and for the problems that he has suffered in the society, he has acted of this form. 

Link of the news: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/25/teenage-hacker-adam-mudd-jailed-masterminding-attacks-sony-microsoft