Estonian Hacker Jailed for DDoS on Insurance Company

A hacker has been sentence to prison by an Estonian court for using a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against his insurance company. Artur Boiko,  a 44-year-old Estonian national, received a prison sentence of 2 years 7 months for authoring and using the Allaple Virus against his insurance company, If Insurance.

Several years ago, Boiko was in a motor vehicle accident and proceeded to have a dispute with If…