He had recently been fired from his previous job working for a London IT service
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On March 5th 2017, the IT service company experienced a critical system failure because Vladmir did a DDoS attack on them because they fired him. This reduced the reputation of the company and cost them money to get people to fix the problem
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The polices's suspicions turned towards Yanpolsky, due to the fact that he had recently been fired and that the IP address linked to the hack matched his home's IP address
Yanpolsky was then arrested on the 8th of May 2017,and released under investigation
He was then subsequently charged on September 7th 2018 after pleading guilty and sentenced to three and a half years in prison under section 3(1) of the computer misuse act