Two men have been charged with causing thousands of dollars of damage. They are accused of intentionally causing the damage to their computers. The two men are alleged to have used stolen credit cards to make money from the proceeds of the attacks. The victims are not yet in court to face charges of causing damage to the computers they were using to defraud the public. The alleged victims are believed to have been victims of a series of attacks on the computers of the two men in the weeks leading up to the public release of information.”]
Source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/hacking-duo-charged-for-amazon-ddos/