Suspect arrested in 5-year-old kernel.org breach

A computer programmer is accused of compromising several Linux Foundation servers in 2011.

By Lucian Constantin

Five years after a security breach forced the Linux Foundation to take kernel.org offline and to rebuild several of its servers, police have arrested a suspect in the case.

Donald Ryan Austin, a 27-year-old computer programmer from El Portal, Florida, was arrested during a traffic stop on Aug. 28 based on a sealed indictment returned by a federal grand jury in the Northern District of California in June.

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