Sven Olaf Kamphuis, 39, was arrested inward Apr 2013 yesteryear Castilian regime inward Barcelona based on a European arrest warrant for launching massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) assault against Spamhaus that peaked at over 300 Gbps.
Spamhaus is a non-profit grouping based inward Geneva in addition to London that tracks spam in addition to cyber-related threats, creates blacklists of those sites in addition to so sells them to Internet Service Providers.
However, the DDoS attacks on the fellowship were so sustained that seat "the proper performance of the Internet at peril in addition to therefore the interests of many individuals, businesses in addition to institutions," said the court.
Kamphuis was initially sentenced to a full of 240 days, but he has already served 55 days inward on remand later on his extradition from Espana inward 2013 to the Netherlands. Therefore, the judges suspended his remaining 185 days sentence, Dutch tidings reports.
So, Kamphuis is non going to pass whatever fourth dimension behind bars.
Kamphuis was sentenced for non solely carrying out DDoS assault against Spamhaus but likewise its partners inward the United States, U.K., in addition to the Netherlands. Besides this, he fifty-fifty hacked into an IP address equally good equally taking component division inward a criminal organization.
Kamphuis was eventually extradited to the Netherlands where he was inward custody for 2 months inward May 2013.
Kamphuis' lawyers said the British teenager, who used the hacker alias "Narko," was the solely i responsible for the attack.
At the time, Spamhaus blamed the Dutch hosting fellowship called CyberBunker for the 2013 DDoS attack, which came only later on the fellowship blacklisted CyberBunker.
