14 DAY TRIAL // In May this year, Lewys Stephen Martin, a 21-year-old from Britain, was sentenced to two years in prison after admitting that he launched cyberattacks against the website of Cambridge University, Oxford University and Kent Police.
Martin, known online as “Sk1ink,” filed an appeal arguing that his distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks didn’t cause too much damage to the targeted organizations.
Cambridge News reports that his appeal was dismissed by three of the UK’s most senior judges.
“The prevalence of computer crime, its potential to cause enormous damage - both to the credibility of IT systems and the way in which our society now works - and the apparent ease with which hackers, from the confines of their own home, can damage important public institutions, not to say individuals, cannot be understated,” noted Lord Justice Leveson.
In April, Martin pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized access to computer material, one count of unauthorized computer access with intent to commit other offences, five counts of unauthorized acts with intent to impair operation of a computer, and two counts of unauthorized computer access with intent to commit other offences.