Federal Judge Orders Hacker to Pay $8.6M for Rutgers DDoS Cyberattack

A federal judge ordered a New Jersey-based hacker to pay $8.6 million in restitution and serve six months of house arrest for leading a cyberattack on Rutgers University’s network, DOJ said Friday. U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp sentenced Paras Jha, 22, for launching “a series of” distributed denial of service attacks on the Rutgers network November 2014-September 2016. The attacks “effectively shut down Rutgers University’s central authentication server, which maintained, among other things, the gateway portal through which staff, faculty, and students delivered assignments and assessments,” DOJ said.