66-Years-Old Rocker Arrested For Involvement in 2010 Anonymous DDoS Attack
A 66-years-old British rock guitarist received a jail sentence for joining the Anonymous hacker collective in the organized distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in 2010 against various institutions and organizations in the US.
Dubbed Operation Payback, the attacks aimed at different organizations that opposed the activities of WikiLeaks, as well as financial institutions.
By the name of Geoffrey Commander, the rocker used to played on big stages with Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), George Harrison or Elton John, back in the days. Commander has been charged in 2013 as a member of the hacker collective Anonymous. He was not alone, 12 others were in the same position. The reason for the legal trouble was that he contributed to the amplification of the attack by using the LOIC (low-orbit Ion cannon) tool along with thousand others, in a form of protest.
