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For Immediate Release
January
18, 2001
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Washington D.C.
FBI National Press Office
(202) 324-3691
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Mafiaboy
Pleads Guilty
The National
Infrastructure Protection Center and the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) announced today that on January 18,
2001, the fifteen year old male, known on the Internet as
Mafiaboy, appeared before the Montreal Youth Court in Canada
and plead guilty to 56 counts. These counts include mischief
to property in excess of $5000 against Internet sites including
CNN.com, Yahoo.com, and EBay.com, in relation to the February
2000 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. In each
of these instances, the DDoS attacks prevented the victim
sites from offering their web services on the Internet to
legitimate users. The other counts relate to unauthorized
access to several other Internet sites, including U.S. universities.
This investigation
was worked jointly with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
(RCMP), and illustrates the benefits of the long and productive
partnership between the FBI and the RCMP in investigating
computer crime matters.
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