British teenager who made £50,000 from his bedroom by selling software that was used to crash more than 200,000 websites around the world has been convicted of hacking offences. Worcestershire native Grant Manser, now 20, started developing and selling the software at the age of 16. Having been arrested in November 2014, Manser was this week convicted of 10 crimes and sentenced to two years in juvenile detention, suspended for 18 months.
Manser allegedly sold website-crashing software to around 4,000 customers who used it to carry out attacks on 224,548 targets from around the world, which included businesses, schools, colleges and government departments from Poland, France, the United States and the Netherlands, to
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