Hacker Gets 32 Months for Attacks on Liberian Phone Company

A British hacker who attacked the network of a Liberian telecommunications company was sentenced to 32 months in prison.

Daniel Kaye admitted to organizing denial of service attacks that affected customers of Lonestar MTN. He was hired by Cellcom, a rival African telecoms company, so it could poach dissatisfied customers, prosecutors said at a sentencing hearing in London.

Daniel Kaye arrives for sentencing at Blackfriars Crown Court in London, on Jan. 11.

Photographer: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

Judge Alexander Milne said it was a “cynical and financially driven attack on a legitimate business enterprise.”

The attacks overwhelmed the African country’s internet infrastructure, leading to outages across Liberia in 2016, in what prosecutors say was a demonstration of his ...