{"id":19781,"date":"2018-05-08T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/317764"},"modified":"2018-05-08T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:11:00","slug":"man-sentenced-to-prison-over-2010-world-of-warcraft-ddos-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/08\/man-sentenced-to-prison-over-2010-world-of-warcraft-ddos-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to prison over 2010 World of Warcraft DDoS attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court has sentenced Calin Mateias to a year in federal prison over a distributed denial-of-service attack he launched against <em>World of Warcraft<\/em> servers in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Mateias, a Romanian citizen, was extradited to the United States over the accusation last year.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/World-of-Warcraft-Hacker-Video-Game-Federal-Prison-481959481.html\">NBC Los Angeles<\/a> reports that he pled guilty to one count of causing intentional damage to a protected computer in February while prosecutors recommended a 10-month prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p>On top of spending the past six months imprisoned, Mateias has also paid a sum of $29,987 in restitution to Blizzard to make up the costs the developer said it accrued as a direct result of the 2010 attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Angered by a player he regularly competed against, the defendant determined to defeat his <em>WoW<\/em> opponents by interrupting the game&#8217;s server so they could not access the game,&#8221; argued Mateias\u2019 defense during the sentencing. &#8220;His actions were motivated by a juvenile desire to win the game, and for others to lose it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2010 attack targeted the European <em>World of Warcraft<\/em> servers and blocked thousands of players in the affected area from logging into the online game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-44038178\">BBC<\/a> reports that Mateias was facing charges over his alleged involvement in an effort to hack the California-based company Ingram Micro, but those charges have been dropped following his sentencing in the DDoS case.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court has sentenced Calin Mateias to a year in federal prison over a distributed denial-of-service attack he launched against World of Warcraft servers in 2010. Mateias, a Romanian citizen, was extradited to the United States over the accusation last year.\u00a0NBC Los Angeles reports that he pled guilty to one count of causing intentional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}