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A young man who DoSed two British police forces' websites has been sentenced to 16 months in a young offenders' institution.
Liam Reece Watts was jailed at Chester Crown Court earlier this week after DoSing Cheshire Police and Greater Manchester Police's public-facing websites as revenge for being convicted of carrying out a bomb hoax just days after the Manchester Arena mass murder.
Both forces' websites went down for around a day during each denial-of-service attack.
Watts, who was 19 at the time of his misdeeds, was caught after directly taunting police through Twitter using the handle Synic. Cheshire Police traced his account and arrested him at home on 26 March and Watts pleaded guilty a month later to two charges under the Computer Misuse Act.
One of his tweets reportedly said: "@Cheshirepolice want to send me to ..
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