User:Jayone8/sandbox

Stackoverflowin, real name Unknown, is a teenage computer hacker who was responsible for the UK printer breach that occurred in early 2017. He is said to be based out of Toronto, Canada. This attack was said to be simply out of boredom and misery. Since, printer exploitation security has yet to improved, other attacks were carried out by TheHackerGiraffe and others.

The Attack
Teen hacker found a vulnerability in HP's network connected printers that allowed him to connect to the insecure port, 9100. This allowed stackoverflowin to exploit this vulnerability by simply mass printing to these open ports around the web. After a short period of time, over 150, 000 printers in the United Kingdom were hijacked and users greeted with sheets a paper stating, "stackoverflowin the hacker god has returned, your printer is part of a flaming botnet, operating on Putin's forehead utilizing BTI’s (break the internet) complete infrastructure."

Users were also given ASCII-generated robot images.

Programming
To carry out the attack, stackoverflowin wrote a short program in C to automate this process and ran the attack on a VPS (Virtual Private Server), to prevent trace-backs.

Affiliation
This teen has affiliation with the German cyber security group, The Chaos Computer Club (CCC).