Teen hackers targeted celebrities when they crippled Transport for London network in £39m cyber attack

Thalha Jubair, 19, and Owen Flowers, 18, hacked into the Transport for London servers and 'searched for and browsed various famous celebrities'' during the cyberattack.


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