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Teenage Hacker who made PS400,000 from Virus is Jailed for 2 Years Computer hacker Adam Mudd has been jailed for two years. A teenage computer hacker who earned nearly PS400,000 by developing a program that was used in 1.7 million attacks spanning 'Greenland' to New Zealand' was jailed for two years on the day of today. Adam Mudd, now 20 Adam Muddd, now 20, sold access to the Titanium Stresser tool which let users crash computers and websites by flooding them with data. MINECRAFT SERVER LISTS He developed the distributed denial of service software, also known as DDoS in his bedroom. He began selling it to criminals when at the age of 16. More than 650,000 victims were targeted during the 1.7 million attacks of which 52,000 were from Britain. Victims included Xbox Live users, and gamers of the computer games Runescape and Minecraft. Runescape was targeted 25,000 times, which is 1.4 percent of all attacks. In the last four years, the company has spent more than PS6million to defend itself from hackers. Mudd earned a total of $307,298.35 and 259.81 bitcoins - which is an aggregate of PS386,079 by the time he was 18. Lauri Love, known as a computer hacker? given the green light... Teenage hacker, 16years old, who earned PS400,000 through the creation of the virus... Using the username 'themuddfamily' he also carried out nearly 600 attacks himself on 181 victims in his bedroom in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire. He studied at West Hertfordshire College in 2014. It was the location of a massive attack that could have affected 70 schools and universities nearby including the University of Cambridge. He was a rogue student at four times during the year, and later claimed that it was because he'd been robbed, but no action was taken, the Old Bailey heard. This map shows the geographic locations of the 1.7million attacks performed by hackers using Mudd's programme all over the world. The key shows the number of attacks that were executed in specific countries. Mudd admitted computer hacking and money laundering last October. Today, he was sentenced two years in a juvenile offenders' institution. While the sentence was being handed down, the defendant showed no emotion as his parents sat in the courtroom. The judge denied a request to suspend the sentence made by the defense the defence, who claimed Mudd was offered two weeks of unpaid work in cyber security.