Teenage Hacker who made PS400000 using Virus is Jailed for 2 Years

Computer hacker Adam Mudd has been jailed for two years

A teenager computer hacker was sentenced to two years of prison today for coding an application that was used in almost 1.7 million attacks across 'Greenland and New Zealand'.

Adam Mudd, now 20 Adam Muddd, who is now 20 years old, was able to purchase access Titanium Stresser tool which let users crash computers and websites by flooding them with data.

He invented the distributed denial of service, or DDoS software from his bedroom, and started selling it to criminals when he was in school, aged 16.

The 1.7million attacks were executed against more than 650,000 victims - of which just over 52,000 were from the UK.

Victims included Xbox Live users, and gamers of the computer games Runescape and Minecraft.

Runescape was targeted more than 25,000 times, which is 1.4 percent of all attacks. In the last four years, the company spent nearly PS6million to defend itself from hackers.

Mudd earned the sum of $307 298.35 and 259.81 Bitcoins totalling an overall PS386,079 by the when he reached the age of 18.

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Using the username 'themuddfamily', He also carried out over 600 attacks himself on 181 victims from his room in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire.

He was a student at West Hertfordshire College in 2014. It was the site of a major attack that could have affected 70 schools and universities within the vicinity including the University of Cambridge.

He swore at his college four times during the year, later claiming that it was because he'd been mugged but no action was taken as the Old Bailey heard.

This map shows the locations of 1.7 million attacks carried out across the globe by hackers using Mudd's software. The key shows the amount of attacks that have been carried out in specific countries.

In October, Mudd was convicted of computer hacking and money laundering. I'm bonnie and you are

Today he was sentenced to two years in a young offenders' institution.

While the sentence was being handed down, the defendant showed no emotion as his parents sat in court.

The defense had offered Mudd two weeks of work for which he was paid and the judge refused their request to suspend the sentence.