Teenagers accused the transportation for the cyberspace in London
Teenagers were charged as part of an investigation into the National Crime Agency (NCA) in an electronic attack on transportation to London.
TFL suffered a major penetration on August 31 of last year, which investigators believed to be implemented by members of the Cyber-Criminal Group, Scatterd Spider.
Talha Yubayer, 19, from East London, and Awin Flapers, 18, from West Midlands, were arrested in their headlines on Tuesday by NCA and London police.
Both of them appeared in the Westminster Court of the judges on Thursday afternoon, accusing him of conspiring together to commit unauthorized acts against TFL, according to the computer abuse law.
They were imprisoned in the reservation to appear before the Soutoark Crown court at a later time.
“Today is an essential step in what was a long and complicated achievement,” said director Paul Foster, head of the NCA National Crime Unit.
“This attack caused a large disruption and millions of losses in TFL, which is part of the critical national infrastructure in the United Kingdom.”
The court heard that the penetration of TFL occurred while Mr. Flowers was on bail after his arrest in terms of multiple Ransomwari.
After his arrest, investigators found evidence that he also targeted US health care companies.
So Mr. Flowers was also accused of conspiring, with others, to infiltrate the SSM Health Core networks and try to do the same with the STTER Health.
When Mr. Flores appeared in court, he was wearing a gray Hodi with the “off the network” written on it. Mr. Yubayer sat next to him, wearing black Hoodie and black glasses.
Not anyone spoke to each other during the procedures.
Humility malfunction TFL services For a period of three months.
TFL books to about 5,000 customers To say that there may be unauthorized access to their personal information, such as bank account numbers and sorting symbols.
TFL added that data including names, emails and home addresses have been accessed.
In a statement on Thursday afternoon, he said: “We welcome this announcement issued by the National Crime Agency that two people were now charged with regard to the internet incident that affected our operations last year.”
Earlier this year, NCA warned of an increasing threat of UK -based electronic criminal gangs and other English -speaking countries, which spread the scattered spider.