22-year-old 'Anonymous' hacker arrested in United Kingdom

By on Aug 25, 2011 at 3:50 PM
Legal August 25, 2011

A 22-year old student allegedly associated with the hacking group “Anonymous” has been arrested and charged in the United Kingdom. Peter David Gibson is charged with “conspiracy to do an unauthorized act in relation to a computer, with intent to impair the operation of any computer or prevent or hinder access to any program or data held in a computer or to impair the operation of any such program or the reliability of such data,” the Metropolitan Police said in a statement Thursday. Gibson is out on bail and is scheduled to appear in court on September 7th to stand trial. It is believed that Gibson was involved on a number of Anonymous’s DDOS attacks against large corporations; the “Anonymous Operations” branch of the hacking group most recently attacked Apple. Authorities in the United States and the United Kingdom have arrested a number of hackers believed to be associated with Anonymous and a sub-group called LulzSec. LulzSec spokesperson and hacker Jack Davis, aka Topiary, was arrested earlier this month and released on bail.

[Via Bloomberg]

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  • http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

    The sad thing is, they are only picking off the kids who downloaded Anon’s DDoSing tool and not the people behind everything. Yet another arrest that will lead to nothing. In order for Anon or anyone to DDOS a corporations server to make it useless you need a lot of people or a lot of proxies. Anon got a bunch of little rebellious sheep to do their leg work.

    • Sam The Man

      To my knowledge, if this guy wasn’t behind any of the security breaches, he’ll be looking at a plea agreement. AKA, give us names or you’ll be getting anal exercises soon.

      • http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

        The little kiddos/foreveraloners who did help Anon with the DDOS know nothing about Anon. Anon simply provided the information they needed to be put into their DDOS’ing program to get it running. It’s all dead ends.

      • Anonymous

        I probably wouldn’t talk shit about an underground organization that’s disabled huge corporations

      • DaHarder

        Either way… I hope that they make an example of him and lock his sorry butt up for decades!

      • http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

        You want them to lock up a possible pawn in the Anon’s larger game? Locking a 22 year old up does nothing for society. That is just wasting tax dollars.

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      • Michale11111

        Truly the mark of a mature person. Did you spend a lot of time laughing after you wrote this assinine diatribe?

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  • Fat Mams

    They are not going to get a thing off him. His hard drive is definitely encrypted . Anything incriminating is encrypted. Unless he breaks, he will go free ..

  • Anonymous

    “conspiracy to do an unauthorized act in relation to a computer, with intent to impair the operation of any computer or prevent or hinder access to any program or data held in a computer or to impair the operation of any such program or the reliability of such data”

    My ISP does this all the time.

  • Anonymous

    Please….try going after the criminals in all of our governments first.

    I know, it will never happen.

    • Michale11111

      He is a real criminal. Are you suggesting he should be let go?

      • http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

        He was arrested for DDOSing paypal, do you honestly think he should be put in prison for temporarily disrupting paypal? If so then you should probably swallow a shotgun.

      • Heh

        He was arrested for violating a law.

        It shouldn’t/doesn’t matter who the victim is.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chuck-Wilson/1349086575 Chuck Wilson

        What he did compared to what our governments do. Come on your just as brain dead as the others like you.

  • Michale11111

    Good. Give him a trial then let him rot in prison for a long time.

  • Anonymous

    KEEP getting all those so called Anonymous.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/best-laptop-under-400 Anna W. Mize

    whats wrong with group of individuals? they ara dangerous.

  • Anonymous

    another one heading for some anal exercises in jail..

  • Comp

    I think you meant to reference JAKE DAVIS .. not Jack Davis.

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