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Scattered Spider Duo Gets 5½-Year Terms for £29M TfL Hack

7/16/2026

Summary

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Investigators linked Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair to the Scattered Spider cybercrime group.
They received five-year-six-month sentences for the 2024 breach of Transport for London that cost £29 million and halted Oyster refunds, contactless payments and photo-card applications.
Investigators later recovered parts of Flowers’s 16-hour live broadcast after his arrest.
In custody Flowers bought phones, accessed Ministry of Justice logins, and his laptop showed thwarted hacks of U.S. healthcare providers.

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Story summary

Investigators linked Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair to the Scattered Spider cybercrime group.
They received five-year-six-month sentences for the 2024 breach of Transport for London that cost £29 million and halted Oyster refunds, contactless payments and photo-card applications.
Investigators later recovered parts of Flowers’s 16-hour live broadcast after his arrest.
In custody Flowers bought phones, accessed Ministry of Justice logins, and his laptop showed thwarted hacks of U.S. healthcare providers.