News - 14/12/2011

Hacker of Gene Simmons' website arrested

Hacker of Gene Simmons' website arrested

Kevin Poe, of Manchester, Connecticut was arrested - and released on bail - on Tuesday. The charges for the man affiliated to the Anonymous hacking group are for an attack on a website belonging to Kiss bassist Gene Simmons, authorities said.
Poe has to face two counts: conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer. If convicted of both, he faces up to 15 years in prison.

Poe and others linked to Anonymous conducted a "denial of service" attack over a five-day period last October against Simmons' computer systems, sending tens of thousands of electronic requests designed to overload the server and render www.GeneSimmons.com useless.

Authorities didn't say why Simmons was targeted, but he made comments against copyright infringement at a convention in Cannes, France, days before the cyber attack.



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