Two teenagers who became Britain’s biggest cyber hackers have been jailed for five years for a £29milllion attack on the London transport network after being caught out by a takeaway order.
Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 18, took down Transport for London (TfL) in a four-day cyber attack that threatened to cause £56billion of ‘catastrophic damage’, but TfL managed to ‘pull the plug’ on their network to stop the pair.
Now it can be revealed how the duo became Britain’s worst hackers, ransoming companies around the world for tens of millions of pounds, continuing to wreak havoc even behind bars.
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