John Kelsey Gammell, 46, is charged with using vDOS and other online attack services to hurl a years worth of attack traffic at the Web sites associated with his former employer. vDOS existed for nearly four years, and was known as one of the most powerful and effective pay-to-play tools for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Its customer database of payments and targets was hacked last year, and its customer database was leaked to this author and to the FBI.”]
Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/11/hack-of-attack-for-hire-service-vdos-snares-new-mexico-man/