UK court jails young hackers for massive London transport cyberattack

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A UK court sentenced two young men for a major 2024 cyberattack on London's public transport operator that compromised millions of customer details. The attackers received prison terms of five-and-a-half years each after pleading guilty.

A UK court on Thursday jailed two young men for a 2024 cyberattack on London’s public transport operator that exposed the details of millions of customers, in one of Britain’s biggest data breaches. Thalha Jubair, 20, from East London, and 18-year-old Owen Flowers from England’s West Midlands were each handed five-and-a-half-year sentences at London’s Woolwich Crown Court. The pair pleaded guilty last month to hacking Transport for London’s (TfL) network between August 31 and September 3, 2024,...