https://siliconangle.com/2019/07/04/derptrolling-hacker-sentenced-27-months-behind-bars/
By Duncan Riley
SiliconANGLE
July 4, 2019
A 23-year-old man who was involved in multiple distributed
denial-of-service attacks in December 2013 and January 2014 that targeted
online gaming services has been sentenced to 27 months in prison.
Austin Thompson, known online as DerpTroll, was part of a group known as
DerpTrolling that attacked and successfully targeted Sony Online
Entertainment, Valve Inc.’s Steam and Electronic Arts Inc.’s Origin in
DDoS attacks. The group later claimed to have attacked the PlayStation
Network, Windows Live and 2k Games Studios in November 2014, although that
was not in the time period covered in Thompson’s indictment.
Thompson’s downfall was some years in the making. Operating a Twitter
account for the group, the Utah resident often taunted targets of the
group, sometimes live-tweeting its activities. Drawing the ire of gaming
fans, Thompson was doxed or exposed by online vigilantes in January 2014.
A later post on the DerpTrolling Twitter account at the time, presumably
from Thompson, said federal agents had shown up at their home but the
suspects had escaped through a bathroom window.
Little was heard from Thompson again until he was arrested in 2018.
Thompson pleaded guilty to a charge of “damage to a protected computer” in
November after agreeing to a plea agreement.
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