- Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 18, are facing jail for a cyber attack on Transport for London (TfL) that resulted in a £39 million loss in 2024.
- The hack forced all 28,000 TfL employees to reset their passwords and disrupted Oyster services, including delayed refunds and closed photocard applications.
- The defendants were members of the criminal hacking group Scattered Spider, which has also been linked to attacks on Jaguar Land Rover and retailers like Marks and Spencer.
- They initially denied conspiring to commit unauthorised acts but changed their pleas to guilty before their trial was due to begin in June.
- Flowers also admitted to targeting US healthcare firms, including SSM Health Care Corporation and Sutter Health.
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