Gil Aegerter reports:
Thirteen alleged members of the computer hacking group Anonymous were indicted Thursday on conspiracy charges accusing them of coordinated cyberattacks on anti-piracy groups, government agencies, credit card companies and others, dubbed Operation Payback.
The federal grand jury indictment, filed in federal court in Alexandria, Va., alleges that the 13 used distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks against the websites of the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, Kiss founding member and reality TV star Gene Simmons, and Hustler magazine, among others.
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The 13 indicted are Dennis Owen Collins, Jeremy Leroy Heller, Zhiwei Chen, Joshua S. Phy, Ryan Russell Gubele, Robert Audubon Whitfield, Anthony Tadros, Geoffrey Kenneth Commander, Phillip Garrett Simpson, Austen l. Stamm, Timothy Robert McClain, Wade Carl Williams, and Thomas J. Bell. They are all charged under Title 18, §371: Conspiracy to Intentionally Cause Damage to a Protected Computer. Their aliases can be found in the indictment.