UK COURT JAILS YOUNG HACKERS FOR MASSIVE LONDON TRANSPORT CYBERATTACK
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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, 2024,...
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- Topic: CHINA — the feed headline centres on COURT, JAILS, YOUNG, HACKERS, MASSIVE.
- Original feed: News - South China Morning Post.
- Published: 16 Jul 2026, 13:50 UK.
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- News - South China Morning Post: 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.
- News - South China Morning Post: 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.
- News - South China Morning Post: The pair pleaded guilty last month to hacking Transport for London’s (TfL) network between August 31 and September 3, 2024,...
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