Student hacker 'cost PayPal $5 million'
Student hacker 'cost PayPal $5 million' Updated: 07:33, Friday November 23, 2012 A London court has heard a university student committed a series of cyber attacks as part of hacking group Anonymous that cost the website PayPal $5.4 million.
Anonymous hackers tried to blackmail tech company Symantec for $50,000 in January, and when Symantec failed to pay up, source codes for Symantec's software were released online, Reuters news agency reported.