Up to a dozen officers from the London Metropolitan Police raided a hacker's den, arrested and charged one Ryan Cleary with offences relating to his alleged involvement with the group Lulzsec.
The primary offence, was a conspiracy to hack computers and to then disseminate a program that would commit Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. In all, Cleary was charged with four UK offences under Section 3 and 3A of the Computer Misuse Act of 1990 and one offence under Section 1 of the Criminal Law Act of 1997.
Obviously technically overmatched, a number of Cleary's targets included the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Cleary could also face extradition to the US, where he may face offences relating to attacks on the Sony Corporation, the US Senate, the FBI and the CIA.
Apparently angered by the recording industry's attempts to limit the downloading of certain popular songs on the Internet without what he referred to as "highway robbery prices," the 19-year-old Cleary determined to "fight back against those agencies that were at fault."
Cleary operated from a deceptively non-descript beige bedroom with one feline co-conspirator. The Met Police had been monitoring the activities within the den for weeks. According to Police Sargent William Finkle, the optimum time for the raid was chosen when Cleary left the den and traveled to the kitchen where he was baking a pizza.
Fortunately there were no injuries reported by the police.
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