- In 2014 Avi Marziano, CEO of Liberian internet and cellphone operator Cellcom, hired 25 year-old Israeli hacker Daniel Kaye to sabotage competitor Lonestar Cell.
- A self-taught coder, Kaye struggled to secure permanent work (questionable reputation).
- Avi periodically paid Kaye $10K to unleash denial-of-service (DDoS) and botnet attacks to convince Lonestar customers to switch.
- By late 2016, the attacks temporarily destabilized Liberia’s internet and unintentionally spread to Germany and the UK.
- Kaye was arrested in the UK and sentenced (January 2019) to 32 months (prison).
