{"id":17610,"date":"2026-07-16T16:29:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=17610"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:29:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:29:58","slug":"young-british-hackers-jailed-for-london-transport-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=17610","title":{"rendered":"Young British hackers jailed for London transport cyberattack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; 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Spencer and the Co-op.<\/p>\n<p>Arrested in September 2025 following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation, the pair were described by prosecutors as \u201cexperienced and talented\u201d hackers who had been known to police for years.<\/p>\n<p>Flowers also admitted to two counts of hacking into US-based organisations, Sutter Health and SSM Health Care Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>When the NCA raided Flowers\u2019 home on September 6 2024 as part of their TfL investigation, they found him actively carrying out those attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Jubair had previously been convicted as a juvenile over cyberattacks targeting US chipmaker Nvidia and admitted hacking the City of London Police force.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2018Keys to the kingdom\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n<p>The pair gained access to the transport network using TfL employee credentials found on \u201crussianmarket\u201d, a dark web marketplace for stolen logins, prosecutor Mark Fenhalls told the court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>They worked for 16 straight hours and throughout the night, communicating via messaging app Telegram, to breach the system after convincing the helpdesk to reset an employee password.<\/p>\n<p>During the intrusion, the teenagers searched the network for the travel histories of celebrities and tried to access customers\u2019 payment information.<\/p>\n<p>After gaining more privileges in the system over several days, the hackers effectively held \u201cthe keys to the kingdom\u201d, giving them \u201ccontrol over the whole network\u201d, Fenhalls said.<\/p>\n<p>During the intrusion, Flowers told Jubair that \u201cthe government deserves to be hacked\u201d, the court heard, as TfL and authorities, who discovered the attack on September 1 2024, took days to regain control of the network.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Scattered Spider \u2013<\/p>\n<p>The NCA\u2019s cybercrime boss Paul Foster said the conviction marked \u201cthe largest criminal prosecution of cyber offenders in UK history\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Scattered Spider is \u201cresponsible for some of the most serious and damaging cyber attacks affecting the UK and countries around the world,\u201d he said in comments made outside the court Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of this investigation, that threat has been significantly disrupted and degraded,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Jubair began hacking as a child, teaching himself to code when he was 10 before attracting the attention of older cybercriminals by age 14, the court heard.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer, Paul Keleher, told the court he had been groomed and exploited by online criminals while under 18 to conduct cyberattacks globally.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Turner said the TfL attack showed he had moved from being exploited to becoming a perpetrator himself.<\/p>\n<p>While remanded in custody, Flowers managed to gain access to online tools to attempt to hack into multiple international government domains.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; 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