Said it once and I will say it again, this sort of crap should come with a minimum 2 year jail term, if you break in to an insecure door on a store and then make it impossible for the store to operate you will go to jail and be paying back damages for the best part of your life, just because you can sit behind a computer and destroy lives and business does not make things any less real.
The world needs to sack up and do something to serious deter this sort of thing, I used to be all about respecting privacy on the internet but when so many people are out to hurt others for nothing more than bragging rights it is just playing straight in to the hands of those that would seek to take away privacy on line.and frankly they would have my vote if it stopped the majority of this BS.