Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Teenager pleads guilty to Scientology web attack - Business Center - PC World

May 11, 2009

A 19-year-old New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to knocking the Church of Scientology's Web site offline in a series of January 2008 online attacks.

Dmitriy Guzner, of Verona, New Jersey, was part of an underground hacking group called Anonymous that has made the church a target of several attacks. He had been expected to enter a guilty plea when he was charged last October, but it was not formally entered until Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. He faces 10 years in prison on computer hacking charges and is set to be sentenced on Aug. 24 in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey...