Teenagers behind massive TfL hack ‘posed £56,000,000,000 threat to UK economy’

Thalha Jubair, now 20, and Owen Flowers, 18, carried out the ‘extremely serious hack’ on TfL’s online network between August 31 and September 3, 2024 (Picture: PA) Two teenage hackers could have ‘shut down Transport for London (TfL) completely’ in a cyber attack that cost the network £29 million. Thalha Jubair, now 20, and Owen Flowers, 18, carried out the ‘extremely serious hack’ on TfL’s online network between August 31 and September 3, 2024. The pair – tied to a group known as Scattered Spider – worked through the night for 16 hours to access the network after tricking the helpdesk into resetting a password for them. They then began ‘using TfL’s own systems to hack itself’ as they continued to infiltrate deeper and deeper – eventually obtaining the ‘highest privileged access’, known as