Police have arrested five youths in connection with the large DDoS attacks on ISPs Ziggo and KPN in August. Four boys 14 to 17 years old, the fifth is 21 years.
Photo: Peter Schoonen
The boys come from Berkelland, Lochem, Den Helder, Schoorl and Vinkeveen. In their parental homes have computers, cell phones and data carriers such as external hard drives and USB sticks seized, police reported.
Ziggo was in August, two nights affected by the attacks causing a major breakdown arose and about 1.8 million customers without internet provider were to sit. KPN was hit.
The perpetrators put videos on YouTube in which they threatened more attacks. According to police, the boys wanted to show that they are capable of great things, such as shutting down the Internet service provider.
The suspects are interrogated all day Tuesday by detectives of the Team High Tech Crime. They must await further research into freedom. According to the Prosecution are DDoS attacks serious crimes where offenders can get jail sentences for many years. They must also be possible to pay for the damage.
In a DDoS attack, a large amount of traffic sent to specific servers, so that may be temporarily inaccessible. The digital assault was directed to Ziggo according to his so-called DNS servers, which ensure that typed addresses are converted to IP addresses. If those servers falter, faltering Internet
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