UPDATE 1-LulzSec hackers "at cutting edge" of cyber crime, court told
Wed May 15, 2013 1:05pm EDT
... "They are at the cutting edge of a contemporary, emerging species of international criminal offending known as cyber crime," prosecutor Sandip Patel told a London court at the start of the men's sentencing hearing.
Among other attacks, the men hacked into Pentagon computers, crashed the CIA's website, stole millions of items of private individuals' data such as passwords and user names from companies including Fox and Sony and posted them online on sites such as Pirate Bay.
"LulzSec saw themselves as latter-day pirates," Patel said, who described them as being motivated by "anarchic self-amusement".
Their exploits, as they described them, also included hacking into News International's computer system to post a fake story, purporting to be from the Sun tabloid, announcing that owner Rupert Murdoch had committed suicide ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/15/britain-hackers-lulzsec-idUSL6N0DW3N320130515
