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| Subject: The good: Anonymous hackers jailed over PayPal attack Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:07 pm | |
| Two computer hackers were jailed by a London court on Thursday for a series of cyber-attacks by the hacking group Anonymous that cost the US online payments giant PayPal millions of dollars.
Christopher Weatherhead, a 22-year-old student, was sentenced to 18 months in jail after being found guilty last month of carrying out attacks on PayPal, MasterCard, Visa and other companies that refused to process payments to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.
Ashley Rhodes, 28, admitted the same charge of conspiring to impair the operation of computers between August 1, 2010 and January 22, 2011 and was jailed for seven months.
Another hacker, 24-year-old Peter Gibson, had also pleaded guilty but was deemed to have played a lesser role in the attacks and was given a six-month suspended sentence. Advertisement
A fourth man, 18-year-old Jake Birchall, who also admitted his involvement, will be sentenced later.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/anonymous-hackers-jailed-over-paypal-attack-20130125-2damw.html#ixzz2Ix97rDMr
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