{"id":40245,"date":"2012-06-26T12:08:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T10:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=40245"},"modified":"2012-06-27T13:24:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T11:24:30","slug":"sony-hackers-plead-guilty-to-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/40245-sony-hackers-plead-guilty-to-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Sony hackers plead guilty to attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two members of LulzSec<\/a>, the group behind many website hacking attacks, have pleaded guilty in a UK court to multiple charges of cybercrimes.<\/p>\n

Ryan Cleary (pictured above), 20, and Jake Davis, 19, have come clean to their online antics, which saw LulzSec perform distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on a number of video game companies and corporate websites throughout 2011.<\/p>\n

Some of claims against the group include hacking into Nintendo<\/a> and Sony’s<\/a> websites, and then some other less important things, such as the Pentagon, the CIA, and UK’s National Health Service.<\/p>\n

While the two teenagers did fess up to the hacking allegations, they pleaded not guilty to more serious charges that they unlawfully obtained the confidential data and shared it across a number of popular hacker hubs, including their home base, LulzSec.com.<\/p>\n

In March, LulzSec’s leader, 28-year old Hector \u201cSabu\u201d Monsegur ratted out the rest of his cadre<\/a> to the FBI as part of a plea bargain.<\/p>\n

Cleary and Davis’ trial is set for April 2013.<\/p>\n

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