An Akron man has been arrested and charged with a cyber attack last year that shut down two of the city鈥檚 main government websites.
Thirty-two-year-old James Robinson is charged with causing a 鈥渄istributed denial of service鈥� attack on the city鈥檚 website, , as well as the Akron Police website, , on Aug. 1 of last year. The attacks essentially consisted of flooding the servers with traffic, causing them to shut down.
The FBI says Robinson was found when his phone number was linked to a Twitter account that took credit for the attacks, posting messages such as, 鈥淚t鈥檚 time we teach the law a lesson鈥� and 鈥淎kron PD abuses the law.鈥� The FBI also says it identified Robinson鈥檚 internet connection as the source of the attacks. Since then, the same Twitter account has been used to take credit for several other attacks, including one on the Ohio Department of Public Safety website.
According to an FBI affidavit, Robinson admitted to many of the attacks after his residence was searched on Wednesday.
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