UK LulzSec hackers plead guilty to CIA hacks

Hackers that attacked the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Department have pleaded guilty to those attacks in a court in London, SC Magazine reported...

Hackers that attacked the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Department have pleaded guilty to those attacks in a court in London, SC Magazine reported.

Ryan Cleary and Jake Davis, both citizens of the UK, are members of the hacking group LulzSec, were alleged to have launched a distributed denial-of-service, or DDos, attack against the U.K. agency, the Serious Organized Crime Agency, (SOCA), in addition to U.S. agencies.

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