Ryan Cleary, the 19-year old Essex man arrested in the UK earlier this week on suspicion of involvement with LulzSec’s recent hacktivities, has been formally charged on five counts of e-crime under the country’s Criminal Law Act and Computer Misuse Act.<\/p>\n
According to the Metropolitan Police website<\/a>, Cleary has been charged for conspiring “with other person or persons unknown to conduct unauthorised modification of computers by constructing and distributing a computer program to form a network of computers (a Botnet) modified and configured to conduct Distributed Denial of Service attacks”, as well as three separate counts of DDoS attacks and “making, adapting, supplying or offering to supply” the botnet used in those attacks. Yikes.<\/p>\n He’s due to appear in the City of Westminster Magistrates Court later today.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, LulzSec is claiming they’ve got the wrong guy<\/a>. Following news of his arrest on Tuesday, the official LulzSec Twitter posted that, “Seems the glorious leader of LulzSec got arrested, it’s all over now… wait… we’re all still here! Which poor bastard did they take down?<\/p>\n