A 17-year-old member of notorious hacking gang Lizard Squad has escaped jail time, despite being convicted of 50,700 computer crime charges.
Julius "zeekill" Kivimaki was instead ordered to "fight against cybercrime" and given a two-year suspended prison sentence, according to the Daily Dot.
Lizard Squad, you may remember, was The Grinch of Christmas 2014, claiming responsibility for taking Sony's PlayStation Network and Microsoft's Xbox Live offline via massive DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks.
A spokesman for the group, calling himself "Ryan" but identified by Brian Krebs as Kivimaki, told Sky News that the attacks were orchestrated to "raise awareness [of the lack of security at Sony and Microsoft], to amuse ourselves," adding that he felt no guilt over the attack which undoubtedly left many kids unable to play with their newly unwrapped presents.
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