On August 3, 2000, Canadian federal prosecutors charge a fifteen-year-old boy with fifty-four counts of illegal access to computers, plus ten counts of mischief to data for his attacks on Amazon.com, eBay, Dell Computer, and Yahoo. During the month of February, the boy carries out several "denial of service" attacks on these websites causing service interruptions and some of the websites to go down.
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