3 ms·
> and they were DDOS, so technically Microsoft broke a law And what law is that?
by belltaco 3y ago
> and they were DDOS, so technically Microsoft broke a law
And what law is that?
- jmclnx 3y ago>In the US, denial-of-service attacks may be considered a federal crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act with penalties that include years of imprisonment.[121] The Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the US Department of Justice handles cases of DoS and DDoS. In one example, in July 2019, Austin Thompson, aka DerpTrolling, was sentenced to 27 months in prison and $95,000 restitution by a federal court for conducting multiple DDoS attacks on major video gaming companies, disrupting their systems from hours to days You can do a google search to get more info