User:TheAKGod

'''TheAKGod Hacktivist '''

Who was TheAKGod? TheAKGod, also known as Scale, is a computer hactivist that has claimed responsibility for several attacks conducted over the Internet. He is perhaps best known for his "Overdose" DDoS attacks which were conducted with MafiaBoy, and Jord also known as Juvi on United States government websites which was launched in December 2010.

In June 2010, Team Infinite attacked one of the world's biggest hosting companies, HostGator, leaving the website unavailable for almost 4 hours.

In August 2010, TheAKGod was arrested in a cyber submit held in Montreal by the RCMP. After 1 week, TheAKGod was let out on parole with out any criminal offences. Judge William F. Trudeau mentioned "unfortunately, there wasn't enough evidence that lead to this case." TheAKGod

November 12th, 2010; TheAKGod was re-arrested by the RCMP and was charged with 6 months of probationary community service and a fine of $10,000. He was later interviewed on CNN, 1 week later he had mentioned "I didn't know what I was thinking. Hacking was journey for me. I wanted to see how far I could of went. I regret doing all of this stuff, but I have no other choice but to live with my consequences."

Early life

TheAKGod was born in the East area of Montreal, Quebec. When he was seven, his parents separated and he lived with his mother after she had won a lengthy battle for primary custody. Every second weekend he would stay at his father's condo in Montreal proper. He felt isolated from his friends back home and troubled by the separation of his parents, so his father purchased him his own computer at the age of nine. It instantly had a hold on him: “I can remember sitting and listening to it beep, gurgle and churn as it processed commands. I remember how the screen lit up in front of my face. There was something intoxicating about the idea of dictating everything the computer did, down to the smallest of functions. The computer gave me, a nine year old, a sense of control and command. Nothing else in my world operated that way.

Aftermath

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police first noticed Granitto when he started claiming in IRC chatrooms that he was responsible for the attacks. He became the chief suspect when he claimed to have brought down Forums website, an attack that had not been publicized at that time. Information on the source of the attacks was initially discovered and reported to the press by Michael Trembler, chief technology officer of Recourse Technologies. Granitto initially denied responsibility but later pled guilty to most of the charges brought against him. His lawyer insisted the child had only run unsupervised tests to help design an improved firewall, where as trial records indicated the youth showed no remorse and had expressed a desire to move to Italy for its lax computer crime laws. The Montreal Youth Court sentenced him on November 12, 2010 to six months of "open custody," six months of probation, restricted use of the Internet, and a small fine.