Router hacker suspect arrested at Luton Airport
Found on BBC News on Friday, 24 February 2017
"He is accused of being the mastermind behind the attack," Cologne public prosecutor Dr Daniel Vollmert told the Press Association.
Once hijacked, the routers would be used to mount what is known as "distributed denial of service" attacks. These attempt to knock sites and servers offline by sending them more data than they can handle.
Fake news day? Telekom's problem was completely home-made because they decided to expose TR-069 to just everybody on the Internet; and along with a massive input validation failure that allowed an expected hostname string to be replaced by backticked shell commands caused this entire mess. They hype the suspect as a mastermind to distract from their own big mistakes.