Suspected Anonymous Hacker Faces Potential 10-Year Prison Sentence

A 22-year-old arrested back in early April for his suspected involvement in hacker attacks as part of the Anonymous hacking group has been formally charged by British police, according to an Associated Press report. Not many details have been released, though the suspect has been identified as Peter David Gibson, currently a student at Hartlepool.

If convicted, Gibson faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. More likely, however, is that he'll plea bargain for a lesser punishment and fork over intel on Anonymous at large (note that plea bargaining in the U.K. works differently than it does in the U.S.). Anonymous has been behind several high profile hacker attacks in recent months, a... »read more

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