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Third Anonymous Member Sentenced in Scientology Church Attack
Published on 23 Sep, 2010 at 9:48 in Cloud | Viewed 1,266 times | 18 Comments
A member of Anonymous was sentenced earlier this week in New York City Criminal Court for his role in an attack on the Church of Scientology of New York, making him the third affiliate of the hacktivist collective to be held responsible for the 2009 incident.
In 2009, Jacob Speregen accompanied another member of Anonymous, Mahoud Samed Almahadin, who ran into the New York Church off Times Square and…
Second Scientology DDoS Attacker Jailed
Published on 26 May, 2010 at 7:43 in Cloud | Viewed 470 times | No Comments
A Nebraska man has been jailed for a year and ordered to pay $20,000 in compensation to the Church of Scientology for participating in the 2008 DDoS attacks that crashed the organization’s websites.
According to court documents, Brian Thomas Mettenbrink participated in the attack on the Scientology websites orchestrated by the underground hacker group Anonymous. He admitted downloading computer software from an Anonymous message board and using it to bombard…
