Three members of the high profile internet hacktivist group LulzSec have admitted to their parts in a series of cyber attacks against the NHS, Sony and News International. Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis and Mustafa Al-Bassam, pleaded guilty to one
charge of carrying out an unauthorized act to impair the operation of a
computer, contrary to the Criminal Law Act 1977.
In July 2011 the Sun's website was hacked and users were briefly
re-directed to a spoof page that falsely claiming that Rupert Murdoch
had died. Davis, from Shetland, and Bassam, a student from Peckham,
south London, admitted conspiring to bring down the websites of law
enforcement authorities in Britain and the US, including the CIA and the
Serious Organized Crime Agency. The group, an offshoot of the Anonymous
hacktivists, but Both LulzSec and Anonymous wreaked havoc throughout
2011 and 2012, knocking thousands of websites offline and pilfering data
from well-known companies. (SOCA).
DDoS attacks on the institutions with other unidentified hackers
belonging to online groups such as LulzSec, Anonymous and Internet Feds. American prosecutors are pursuing charges against a number of people
allegedly connected to the hacking groups, including the Reuters
journalist Matthew Keys.
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