Japanese Hacker arrested for infecting server with "Browser crash" virus

Tochigi Prefectural Police of Japan arrested A man for transmitting "browser crasher" virus on to a web server of another individual,on November 1, 2011.


Takashi Tomiyama, 44 years old, sentenced for allegedly transmitting the virus to a website server run by a 38-year-old man from Fujioka ,on August 26, 2011. The virus caused a large number of web pages to open simultaneously on the visitor's screen and rendered the site's chat function unusable.

"I built the virus on my home computer to attack the chat room," Tomiyama was quoted as telling police.

"Tomiyama is the first person to be arrested in Japan after recent revisions to the country's cyber crime laws." The Mainichi Daily News report .