Two teenagers have appeared in court charged with hacking London\u2019s transport authority in a cyber-attack last year.<\/p>\n
Thalha Jubair, 19, from east London, and Owen Flowers, 18, from Walsall, West Midlands, were arrested on 16 September at their home addresses in a joint operation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and City of London police.<\/p>\n
The men appeared at Westminster magistrates court on Thursday after being charged with conspiring to commit unauthorised acts against Transport for London (TfL) under the Computer Misuse Act.<\/p>\n
Flowers has also been charged with conspiring with others to infiltrate and damage the IT systems of a US healthcare company, SSM Health Care Corporation, and attempting similar acts at Sutter Health, another US company.<\/p>\n
Jubair has also been charged under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act with failing to disclose the pin number or passwords of electronic devices seized from him.<\/p>\n
Flowers, wearing a grey hoodie with the slogan \u201coff the grid\u201d, and Jubair, in a black hoodie, spoke to confirm their names, dates of birth and addresses.<\/p>\n
TfL operates London\u2019s tube, bus and overground rail networks. Prosecutors said the alleged cyber-attack resulted in a \u00a339m loss for TfL as well as a \u201closs of livelihood\u201d for people dependent on TfL licences. The operation of major TfL transport services was not affected.<\/p>\n
The NCA said in a statement that it believed the hack was carried out by members of an online hacking community known as Scattered Spider.<\/p>\n
Paul Foster, the head of the NCA\u2019s national cyber crime unit, said: \u201cToday\u2019s charges are a key step in what has been a lengthy and complex investigation. This attack caused significant disruption and millions in losses to TfL, part of the UK\u2019s critical national infrastructure.<\/p>\n
\u201cEarlier this year, the NCA warned of an increase in the threat from cybercriminals based in the UK and other English-speaking countries, of which Scattered Spider is a clear example. The NCA, UK policing and our international partners, including the FBI, are collectively committed to identifying offenders within these networks and ensuring they face justice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two teenagers have appeared in court charged with hacking London\u2019s transport authority in a cyber-attack last year. Thalha…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-434050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115226353575720309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}