Student charge with alleged computer hacking, police have confirmed

by Katy Murcutt - Paralegal

05 September 2011, filed under Consumer

An English student has been charged for his alleged involvement in hacking a computer the Met Police service have stated.

22 year old Peter Gibson from Hartlepool, has been arrested by police investigating the activities by a group of hackers who were named ‘Anonymous’ the Metopolitan police stated. The group named Anonymous has previously been linked with distributed denial of service attacks against organisations such as eBay, Visa and PayPal.

Also known as the DDOS, typically include hackers using Malware infected pc’s to hit a website with such vast amounts of traffic that it inevitably stops functioning.

The Criminal Law says that any persons are guilty of conspiring to commit an offence if they knowingly carry out actions where they have agreed with other individuals to cause an offence.

And under the Computer Misuse Act an individual can be heavily fined or put in prison if they happen to be found guilty of any act which is unauthorised with an intent to cause fault in the operation of any working pc, hinder or stop access to any necessary program or information which is held on the computer and disrupt the program or reliability of any such information, or enabling those to be done.

The Metropolitan Police have stated that Gibson is due to go to court on the 7th of September.

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