Scattered Spider teens jailed 5.5 years for £29M TfL attack – extradition looms
Two UK teenagers, core members of the Scattered Spider hacking group, have been sentenced to 5.5 years for a £29 million cyber attack on Transport for London. The case demonstrates the group’s social engineering prowess and the role of cryptocurrency tracing in identifying attackers, while one hacker now faces extradition to the US for $87 million in extortion.
Source: Editor (GB)