Hacker known online as "Dr Mengele" sentenced to jail for World of Warcraft DDoS attack
A World of Warcraft player who hit Blizzard with a DDoS attack has been sentenced to one year in prison in the US.
38-year-old Romanian Calin Mateias flooded Blizzard's European servers with traffic between February and September 2010 in a bid to prevent his in-game rivals from logging in, the Department of Justice said.
Mateias, who was known online as Dr Mengele (after the Nazi doctor who conducted deadly experiments on prisoners) was also ordered to pay $29,987 (£22k) to Blizzard to cover the cost of combating the DDoS attack.
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