Young British hackers jailed for London transport cyberattack
‘Keys to the kingdom’ The pair gained access to the transport network using TfL employee credentials found on “russianmarket”, a dark web marketplace for stolen logins, prosecutor Mark Fenhalls told the court on Wednesday.
The pair pleaded guilty last month to hacking Transport for London’s (TfL) network between August 31 and September 3 2024, gaining access to around seven million customers’ names and contacts.
During the intrusion, Flowers told Jubair that “the government deserves to be hacked”, the court heard, as TfL and authorities, who discovered the attack on September 1 2024, took days to regain control of the network.
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