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title: Arrested Teen Earns $385k from DDoS Tool
description: He created the DDoS service when he was only 15.
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# [Arrested Teen Earns $385k from DDoS Tool](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/arrested-teen-earns-385k-from-ddos-tool)

 Written by [SecureWorld News Team](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/author/secureworld-news-team) | Wed | Nov 2, 2016 | 7:00 AM Z

He created the DDoS service when he was only 15. 

[The Register Explains:](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/02/teen_uk_hacker_pleads_guilty_after_earning_385k_from_ddos_tool/)

> A 19 year-old Hertfordshire man has pled guilty to running the Titanium Stresser booter service that offered distributed denial of service (DDoS)-as-a-service.
> 
> Such services are often marketed as innocuous and legitimate stress testing tools, but are instead often used for cheap and effective attacks of websites.
> 
> Prosecutors say Adam Mudd earned more than US$385,000 (£315,000 A$505,000) by renting out the service he created as a 15 year-old.
> 
> He pled guilty at London’s Old Bailey to two offences under the Computer Misuse Act and one money laundering offence and will be sentenced in December.
> 
> Bedfordshire Police say in a notice that Mudd's now dead [Titanium Stresser](https://web.archive.org/web/20131017150650/http://titaniumstresser.net/login.php) was used in many thousands of DDoS attacks by criminals renting the service.

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