In 2010, a Romanian World of Warcraft participant launched a collection of distributed denial of service assaults in opposition to the video games European servers. This week, he was sentenced to a 12 months in US federal jail for his position in these assaults.
38-year-old Calin Mateias was indicted for this case in 2011, and on November 20 final 12 months was extradited from Romania and has been held in custody since. According to a release from the US Department of Justice (by the use of BBC), in February Mateias pleaded responsible to 1 rely of “intentional damage to a protected computer.” The DDOS assaults in query occurred between February and September of 2010, usually in reference to “in-game disputes” between Mateias and different gamers.
Mateias was indicted on unrelated charges again in 2004 for allegedly conspiring to steal over $10 million value of apparatus from California pc provider Ingram Micro. His display identify on the time was famous as “Dr. Mengele,” a Nazi physician identified for performing human experiments on the Auschwitz focus camp.
Charges within the 2004 theft try had been dropped after Mateias’ sentence within the WoW DDOS case, which took place as a result of an FBI investigation.
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