A British man has been charged in connection to a cyberattack against Mumsnet which knocked the popular parenting website offline. Mumsnet experienced a data breach earlier this year when a hacker broke into the website’s servers and exploited administration privileges to redirect the site to a Twitter account which posted messages such as “RIP Mumsnet” and “Our DDoS attacks are keeping you offline,” as well as launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the domain.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet