[governance] Lulzsec: UK men plead guilty to hacking charges

[Riaz K Tayob]

[After the "cruel and inhuman punishment" metered to free speech 
advocate Manning... is the US a safe place for a fair prosecution?]

25 June 2012 Last updated at 12:20 GMT


  Lulzsec: UK men plead guilty to hacking charges

Two members of the computer hacking group Lulzsec have pleaded guilty to 
charges they attacked several high profile websites.

Ryan Cleary, 19, and Jake Davis, 18, admitted being part of Lulzsec, an 
offshoot of the Anonymous collective.

They and two others - Ryan Ackroyd, 25, and a 17-year-old boy - deny 
other similar hacking charges.

Lulzsec claimed responsibility for attacking the UK's Serious Organised 
Crime Agency (Soca) website.

The group is also believed to have hacked computers operated by the NHS, 
News International, Sony, Nintendo, film studio 20th Century Fox, US 
public broadcaster PBS, and US computer security organisations HBGary, 
Black & Berg and Infraguard.

A trial date has been set for April 2013.

Mr Cleary also faces charges in the US, where he stands accused of 
breaking into a number of websites, including that of the US X Factor, 
in order to deface them and steal personal details.

Arrested in June 2011, Mr Cleary was released on bail but later jailed 
after breaching his conditions.

He had been banned from accessing the internet, but is said to have 
contacted hacker Hector Xavier Monsegur, known as "Sabu", who had been 
working as an FBI informant following his own arrest.


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