Computerworld_Estonian Student Fined for Attack (January 28)

28.01.2008

TALLINN, Estonia — A 20-year-old Estonian student has been fined 17,500 kroons ($1,652 U.S.) for participating in a cyberattack that paralyzed Estonian Web sites last spring and soured the country's relationship with Russia.

Gerrit Maesalu, a spokesman for the Northeast District Prosecutor’s Office here, said that Dmitri Galushkevich used his home PC to launch a denial-of-service attack against the Web site for the political party of Estonia's prime minister for several days in April and May.

The attacks occurred after the Estonian government decided to relocate a Soviet-era World War II memorial. Ethnic Russians in Estonia rioted, and cyberattacks ensued. Russia denied involvement. Estonian police are still trying to find others who may have been involved in the attacks.

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