Imprisonment for two "hackers" of the group "Anonymous"

**Pedro Silva** Fri Jan 25, 2013 11:49 am

My friends, this was taken from Jornal de Notícias newspaper:

http://www.jn.pt/PaginaInicial/Tecnologia/Interior.aspx?content_id=3014279&page=-1

Imprisonment for two "hackers" group "Anonymous"

Two members of the group of "hackers" "Anonymous" in London were sentenced to 18 and 17 months in prison for cyber attacks on websites of Paypal, Mastercard and Visa, done in solidarity with WikiLeaks.

Christopher Weatherhead, 22, a student at the University of Northampton (England center) and Ashley Rhodes, 28, of London, in December had already been convicted for an offense of conspiracy to obstruct computer operations, news agency Efe .

Weatherhead was convicted aa 18 months in prison for the attacks carried out between August 1, 2010 and January 22, 2011 against the pages of the online payment company Paypal insurance, Visa cards and Martercard, the record label Ministry of Sound and British Phonographic Industry.

Rhodes was sentenced to seven months in prison for the attack on PayPal

The two "hackers" did what is called denial of service attacks in which computers are used 'zombies', infected with virus, to flood the pages with access requests, and take it to collapse

During the trial, she learned that the website of PayPal suffered repeated attacks between days 08 and 17 December 2010, which represented costs for the company 4.13 million.

All pages of the victims of the attacks in an operation group Anonymous solidarity with Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange were redirected to another, in which one could read "You tried to bite the hand of Anonymous. Enfiaste you now and in the hive stung you ".

In the same case were tried other "hackers" that the London court also declared guilty: Peter Gibson, 24, was sentenced to unite penalty of six months imprisonment suspended due to less involvement in the case; regarding Jake Birchall, 18 , the sentence will be known on February 01 ..

Judge Peter Test considered "intolerable" that "when an individual or group is not in accordance with the activities of a company, feel libre to restrict this activity through attacks such as those that took place in this case."