Remember all those stories back in 2011 about Lulzsec, the hacker group behind a number of hacking attacks – including one against Sony as well as various government bodies, including possibly the CIA? It hasn’t ended well for at least some of their members – a number of whom have pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the UK, according to the BBC.
I thought I’d write a quick post about this just to emphasise that these examples show that hacking attacks, including DDoS (distributed denial of service) are illegal (in the UK at least anyway). It’s set out in the Computer Misuse Act 1990 (amended, for those who care, by the Police and Justice Act 2006) which, as it happens, was the subject of one of the very first blog posts on Gamer/Law,.. Continue reading Lulzsec, hacking and the Computer Misuse Act 1990