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Teen hackers who live streamed cyber-attack on TfL jailed
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Two men who carried out a cyber-attack which crippled Transport For London (TfL) when they were teenagers have both been sentenced to five years and six months in prison.
Key facts
- Owen Flowers, 18, from Walsall, and Thalha Jubair, 20, from east London, pleaded guilty in June to carrying out the hack in 2024 — He is also wanted in the US in connection with cyber crimes against 47 US-based victims which allegedly led to $115 million paid in ransoms to Jubair and his associates
- Flowers was 17 and Jubair was 18 when they hacked into the capital's transport authority at 1700 on 31 August
- TfL hack in 2024 affected around 10 million people, BBC can reveal
Summary
Owen Flowers, 18, from Walsall, and Thalha Jubair, 20, from east London, pleaded guilty in June to carrying out the hack in 2024. They were described as computer-obsessed loners who carried out the hack as part of the cyber crime collective known as Scattered Spider. The cyber-attack disrupted TfL's online services for months, stole the personal data of millions of people and left all 27,000 TfL employees needing to reset their passwords in person. Woolwich Crown Court heard the criminals streamed their 16 hour long cyber-attack online.