Teen hackers jailed after live streaming cyber-attack on TfL

Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair were convicted for their roles in the attack, which led to large costs for Transport for London.

British hackers jailed for London transport cyberattack

The men behind the 2024 cyberattack, Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 18, were linked to Scattered Spider, an online criminal collective believed to be behind a string of high-profile cyberattacks, including on British retailers Marks & Spencer and the Co-op.

‘Keys to the kingdom’: hackers who gained access to heart of London transport network jailed

Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 19, sentenced to five and a half years each for cyber-attack that cost Transport for London £39m The teenage hackers had London’s transport network at their mercy. Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers had burrowed into the heart of Transport for London’s IT systems and held the “keys to the kingdom”. TfL said the attack, which occurred between 31 August and 3 September 2024, could have caused “catastrophic damage” to its technology systems and could have led to ...

By Dan Milmo and Joe Pinner

UK court jails young hackers for massive London transport cyberattack

A UK court on Thursday jailed two young men for a 2024 cyberattack on London’s public transport operator that exposed the details of millions of customers, in one of Britain’s biggest data breaches. Thalha Jubair, 20, from East London, and 18-year-old Owen Flowers from England’s West Midlands were each handed five-and-a-half-year sentences at London’s Woolwich Crown Court. The pair pleaded guilty last month to hacking Transport for London’s (TfL) network between August 31 and September 3, 202...

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Hackers behind £39m Transport for London cyber attack jailed

Along with the £29 million in damages from disruption to services and operational work, TfL claims the incident cost £10 million in lost income

By Stanley Murphy-Johns,Rosie Shead and Alex Levy