{"id":52732,"date":"2013-04-13T14:43:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T12:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=52732"},"modified":"2013-04-13T14:51:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T12:51:31","slug":"psn-hackers-plead-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/52732-psn-hackers-plead-guilty","title":{"rendered":"PSN hackers plead guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four members of the LulzSec hacking group have pleaded guilty for charges regarding hacking Sony systems, along with a number of other sites.<\/p>\n

Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis, Mustafa al-Bassam and Ryan Cleary are the guilty party, and after admitting to their actions in a British court, the four will be sentenced on 14 May, and are expected to face a 2 to 3 year sentencing.<\/p>\n

LulzSec performed distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on a number of video game companies and corporate websites throughout 2011.<\/p>\n

Some claims against the group include hacking into Nintendo<\/a> and Sony\u2019s<\/a> websites, and then some other less important things, such as the Pentagon, the CIA, and UK\u2019s National Health Service.<\/p>\n

In March 2012, LulzSec\u2019s leader, 28-year old Hector \u201cSabu\u201d Monsegur also ratted out the rest of his cadre<\/a> to the FBI as part of a plea bargain.<\/p>\n

Source: BBC\u00a0<\/a><\/h6>\n

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LulzSec hackers throw in the towel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":52733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[195,5252,405,21,5251,2619,131,5250],"class_list":["post-52732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-anonymous","tag-ddos","tag-hacking","tag-headline","tag-jake-davis","tag-lulzsec","tag-psn","tag-ryan-cleary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}