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FBI arrests man for plan to kill 70% of Internet in AWS bomb attack
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The FBI arrested a Texas man on Thursday for allegedly planning to kill of about 70% of the internet in a bomb attack targeting an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center on Smith Switch Road in Ashburn, Virginia.
Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, was charged via criminal complaint on Friday morning for attempting to destroy a building using C-4 plastic explosives he tried to buy from an undercover FBI employee.
The FBI got wind of the suspect s plans in January when he revealed his plot on the MyMilitia website using a Dionysus handle, a forum used by militia members and supporters to organize and communicate.
Texas man was plotting to blow up Amazon data center in Virginia, federal prosecutors say
Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, said he wanted to disrupt internet services for most of the country.
File photo.(Andy Jacobsohn / Staff Photographer)
A Wichita Falls man accused of plotting to blow up an Amazon Web Services data center in Virginia was arrested Thursday.
Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, spent months planning how he would disguise his car for the trip to and from Virginia, where he would detonate explosives in an attempt to crash most of the nation’s internet, according to a federal criminal complaint made public Friday.