The November attack hijacked about 900,000 routers and briefly stopped their owners getting online, affecting about 1.25 million Deutsche Telekom customers. The man claimed he had only found out via the media that routers in Germany had switched themselves off after the attack. In the aftermath of the hacking attacking in November 2016, a spokesperson for Deutsche Telekom said: “The malware was badly programmed, it didn’t function properly and didn’t do what it was meant to do. According to a court spokesperson, the accused could face a prison sentence of between six months and 10 years. Friday’s hearing had to be interrupted briefly because the 29-year-old has diabetes and describes his own condition as “unstable”.

Source: The Guardian July 21, 2017 18:10 UTC