StateScoop: An Arizona man was sentenced in federal court this week to 20 months in prison for running a March 2015 cyberattack against Madison, Wisconsin, that took down the city government's web services, including those used by its police and other emergency agencies.
Randall Charles Tucker, who called himself the "Bitcoin Baron" in online forums, received the sentence on Monday after pleading guilty to executing a distributed denial-of-service attack against the city — an operation that disables a system by overloading it with phony requests, effectively rendering it offline to legitimate users. He was also ordered to pay back more than $69,000 for damaging Madison's computer systems over the course of the attack, which lasted about six days.
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