LONDON: Two British ​hackers behind a 2024 cyberattack ‌on ​London’s public transport body which cost £29 million ($39.16 million) to fix were sentenced on Thursday to a ⁠total of 11 years in jail.

Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 18, ‌pleaded guilty last month, on what would have been the ‌first day of their ‌trial, to hacking Transport for ‌London (TfL) in ‌August and September 2024, which had been ​blamed on ‌hacking ​collective “Scattered Spider”.

Flowers also ⁠admitted cyberattacks on two not-for-profit health systems in the ​United ⁠States ⁠just days after targeting TfL. He was arrested while ⁠carrying out the second hacks.

Judge Mark Turner sentenced both Jubair and Flowers to five-and-a-half years in prison, saying ‌he accepted they were “primarily motivated by ​selfish bravado, heedless of the severe consequences for others”. ($1 = 0.7406 pounds)