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High schooler allegedly hired third party to DDoS his school district

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Dissent

See? This is what happens when you don’t teach students how to hack. They have to hire someone. 

Lisa Vaas reports:

A 17-year-old high school boy may face state and federal charges for allegedly having paid a third party to launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that crippled the West Ada school district in Idaho, US, for a week and a half earlier this month.

Because he’s a minor, he can’t be named.

Read more on NakedSecurity.

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