U.S. indicts Brit Ryan Cleary for Fox, PBS hacks
The British man that allegedly hacked into the Fox reality TV show "The X-Factor" and the "PBS News Hour," along with music companies and government security agencies, was indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury on conspiracy and hacking charges today, according to the Associated Press.
Ryan Cleary, 20, reportedly had ties to the well-known branch of Anonymous called LulzSec before he was arrested in London last June (although the hacktivist group denies his involvement with it). U.S. federal prosecutors said today that he worked to take down, deface, and steal personal information from Web sites, according to the Associated Press.
This isn't the first time that Cleary has come up against the courts. A separate case was filed against him in U.K. last summer. British authorities charged Cleary on five counts of computer hacking activity, including denial-of-service attacks against the Serious Organized Crime Agency, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, and the British Phonographic Industry.
