Teenager charged over Anonymous hacking attacks

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The 17-year-old boy from Chester will face magistrates along with Peter David Gibson, 22, from Hartlepool

A teenage boy has been charged over online attacks by the international hacking gang Anonymous.

The 17-year-old, from Chester, will appear before magistrates next month accused of conspiracy to do an unauthorised act in relation to a computer, Scotland Yard said.

The boy has been granted bail to appear at City of Westminster magistrates court on 7 September.

Student Peter David Gibson, 22, from Hartlepool, will also face the court on that date charged with the same offence.

A number of hacking groups have claimed responsibility for distributed denial of service attacks on major companies, where websites are flooded with traffic to make them crash.

• Anonymous
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31 Aug, 2011

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