Hacker, also known as ‘BestBuy,’ admitted to the court on Friday that he was behind the cyber attack that knocked more than 1.25 million customers of German telecommunications provider Deutsche Telekom offline last November. The 29-year-old suspect was arrested on 22nd February this year at Luton airport in London by Britain’s National Crime Agency at the request of the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany, aka the Bundeskriminalamt. He’s due to be sentenced on July 28 and faces up to 10 years in prison.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2017/07/mirai-botnet-ddos.html