Adam Mudd, 20, lived in Hertfordshire, small town in the United Kingdom. I say ”lived” because he will be spending next two years in a much less warm and comfortable environment of prison cell. Young man has been sentenced after proven guilty of numerous hacker attacks which netted him a considerable sum of five hundred thousand pounds.

It all begun four years ago. Then sixteen years old, young Adam (who is also, by the way, autistic. As much as it saddens me to say that, this was probably the cause of the boy having too much spare time on his hands) wrote a virus that he dubbed Titanium stresser. He then used this virus to commit around 1.7 MILlion cyber attacks that allowed him to make a hundred thousand pounds. Another more or less four hundred thousand was paid to Mudd by various hackers that bought his virus from him. Payment was usually done either with dollars or Bitcoins, a newly popular Internet currency.

Among the Titanium stresser’s victims (which, unfortunately, we do not know how worked) were Xbox Live gaming platform, MMORPG video game RuneScape and dozens of prestigous colleges around the world, like Cambridge. Knowing the realities of our world, Mudd will be offered a job as soon as he leaves jail – talented hackers are always welcome in many companies.