Matthew Gatrel of St. Charles, Illinois, ran two websites that allowed paying users to launch more than 200,000 DDoS attacks. Court documents reveal that Gatrel had been operating the DDoS services since at least October 2014. He ran two sites, DownThem and Ampnode, both enabling DDoS. Gatrel is facing a maximum statutory sentence of 35 years in a federal prison for the three felonies he has been found guilty of: conspiracy to commit unauthorized impairment of a protected computer.”]