Lulzsec pair plead guilty to hacking, two more deny charges

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Ryan Cleary and Jake Davis are two individuals who were suspected to be involved with hacking group Lulzsec, an outfit claiming responsibility for several high-profile attacks in the gaming industry in 2011. Lulzsec is perhaps best known for its attack against Sony as retaliation for legal actions against George Hotz, the guy who rooted the PS3.

Cleary, who is 19, and Davis, the younger of the two at 18, both admitted membership in Lulzsec today at Southwark Crown Court, pleading guilty to "conspiracy to do an unauthorised act or acts with intent to impair, or with recklessness as to impairing, the operation of a computer or computers," Eurogamer reports.

The two both denied making available "unlawfully obtained confidential computer data" on the internet. Two other individuals, 25-year-old Ryan Ackroyd and an unnamed 17-year-old, both denied charges they were involved in Lulzsec hacking.

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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/25/lulzsec-pair-plead-guilty-to-hacking-two-more-deny-charges/#comments

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Android_Posted:

They should use there skills for good not evil,and why would you admit it for some fame? and some jailtime? dumb just dumb.

KatsumiPosted:

Why would they admit it.. risking jail time for some popularity in the media?

I find it pretty stupid myself. Admire their hacking skills but i do not admire their stupidity

FrogPosted:

Dubble lulzsec deserve what they get, Sony was defending their product lulzsec had no right to attack them.
Although it was fairly amusing to see hackers as young as the ones in lulzsec take down a corporation like sony for 1 month straight


Yeah. I do admire their skills tbh...

DubblePosted:

lulzsec deserve what they get, Sony was defending their product lulzsec had no right to attack them.
Although it was fairly amusing to see hackers as young as the ones in lulzsec take down a corporation like sony for 1 month straight

BritishColumbiaPosted:

da10vid They could have (and should have) destroyed Sony!


they did for 1 month LOL

PoonPosted:

da10vid They could have (and should have) destroyed Sony!


i wish they did. Teach them a lesson to make a better services!

da10vidPosted:

They could have (and should have) destroyed Sony!

BritishColumbiaPosted:

sucks for these guys

FrogPosted:

teli Lulzsec are wannabes.


Wannabees of who?

PsychonautPosted:

Perhaps Funny, I went to school with Ryan Ackroyd. Ironically enough he was in my 11th Grade computer science class some years back.


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