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UK court jails young hackers for massive London transport cyberattack

A UK court on Thursday jailed two young men for a 2024 cyberattack on Londonโ€™s public transport operator that exposed the details of millions of customers, in one of Britainโ€™s biggest data breaches. Thalha Jubair, 20, from East London, and 18-year-old Owen Flowers from Englandโ€™s West Midlands were each handed five-and-a-half-year sentences at Londonโ€™s Woolwich Crown Court. The pair pleaded guilty last month to hacking Transport for Londonโ€™s (TfL) network between August 31 and September 3, 2024,...