A 25-year-old man from the Silkeborg area is accused of having attacked more than 300 websites and made them inaccessible to visitors for a period of time.
The man used so-called DDoS attacks to overload the websites’ servers, causing them to shut down.
It writes TV Midwest.
– We have not had any similar cases. They appear occasionally, but this extent has never been seen before.
– In my conviction, this is the biggest case we have had in Denmark in terms of DDoS attacks, says special prosecutor at the Central and West Jutland Police Ulrik Panduro to TV Midtvest.
According to the police, the 25-year-old wrote on Twitter under the name _RektFaggot_ when he closed down a new website. But according to police, he has not been alone.
According to the indictment, he is accused of having partially planned and carried out the attacks in association with unknown perpetrators, which the 25-year-old, however, denies.
According to the special prosecutor, an owner of one of the websites suffered a loss of one million kroner while their server was down for 24 hours.
The total of 354 matters in the police indictment all have a common denominator.
– All websites have something to do with animals. The accused had a political motive in that the attacks had something to do with the protection of animals.
– It has been, among other things, Icelandic and Japanese websites for whaling that were attacked, says the special prosecutor.
The DDoS attacks have also targeted animal porn websites and amusement park websites with animals as attractions.
In addition, there are also a number of attacks on the websites of trade ministries in Finland, Iceland and Canada – specifically targeting the authorities in the respective countries involved in the export of fur.
The case of the Central Jutland hacker began back in 2015, when the first attacks took place. However, the first reviews did not tick until 2016.
The case was to be run as a confession case, but when the Central Jutland hacker came to court in August 2018, the hacker pleaded not guilty.
Therefore, an in-depth investigation has been conducted, which has now thrown a definitive indictment.
The case is due in court in Viborg, but a date has not yet been set for the start of the trial.