Anonymous 'hacktivists' to be sentenced

Four men will be sentenced today for carrying out cyber attacks with hacking group Anonymous.

Anonymous 'hacktivists' to be sentenced
Thu, 24 Jan, 2013 - 11:00

Four men will be sentenced today for carrying out cyber attacks with hacking group Anonymous.

The so-called ā€œhacktivistsā€ took part in distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks ā€“ one of which cost the PayPal website Ā£3.5m (ā‚¬4.16m).

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