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April 28, 2013, 06:20:46 PM
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http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/28/tech/spain-internet-attack-arrest/

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(CNN) -- Spanish police say they've arrested the man behind what's been called the biggest cyberattack in history.

The suspect, a 35-year-old Dutch citizen, traveled around Spain in a van he used as a mobile office, Spain's National Police said in a statement Sunday.

Police arrested him Thursday north of Barcelona, Spain, on a European arrest warrant at the request of judicial authorities in the Netherlands, the statement said.

The arrest comes a month after Internet users around the globe faced slowed-down service during the prolonged denial-of-service assault on The Spamhaus Project, a European spam-fighting group.

Security experts said the attack used more sophisticated techniques than most distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks and targeted the Web's infrastructure, which led to other sites performing slowly.

In a DDoS attack, computers flood a website with requests, overwhelming its servers and causing it to crash or become inaccessible for many users.

Ok, not specifically about bitcoin, but may be related to MtGox downtime?Huh

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April 28, 2013, 06:26:57 PM
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Not really. He had problem with Spamhouse (who are btw bunch of bozos) so he DDoSed them.

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April 28, 2013, 08:32:29 PM
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Does it say "bitcoin" anywhere in the the a article?

No? Then it's offtopic.

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