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#5 The Hacker News general July 16, 2026 at 17:09 UTC

Two Scattered Spider Hackers Get 5.5 Years Each for £29 Million TfL Hack

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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Scattered Spider members Owen Flowers (18) and Thalha Jubair (20) were sentenced to 5.5 years each at Woolwich Crown Court on July 16, 2026 for the 2024 hack of Transport for London that rendered 148 systems inoperable and forced all 27,000 TfL employees to reset passwords in person, with losses estimated at £29 million. Jubair had previously been accused by U.S. authorities of participating in at least 120 separate attacks as part of the broader Scattered Spider/The Com collective.

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