Three LulzSec Hackers Admit Guilt in NHS and Sony Cyber Attacks
April 9, 2013
Three members of the notorious hacktivist group LulzSec have pleaded guilty to their involvement in a series of cyber attacks targeting the NHS, Sony, and News International. Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis, and Mustafa Al-Bassam confessed to committing an unauthorized act to disrupt computer operations, violating the Criminal Law Act of 1977.
In July 2011, the Sun’s website was compromised, with users momentarily redirected to a fake page falsely announcing Rupert Murdoch’s death. Both Davis, hailing from Shetland, and Bassam, a student from Peckham in south London, admitted to conspiring to attack websites of law enforcement agencies in the UK and US, including the CIA and the Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA).
As an offshoot of the Anonymous hacktivists, LulzSec, along with Anonymous, caused significant disruption throughout 2011 and 2012, taking thousands of websites offline and stealing data from prominent companies. The three men are facing…