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Ryan Ackroyd, 25, from Mexborough, South Yorkshire, appeared in court on charges relating to the Lulzsec hacking of the CIA and the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency. He made no plea and will next appear at Southwark Crown court on 11 May. Mr Ackroyd is the last of four alleged members of online activists LulzSec, a spin-off of the loosely organised hacking collective Anonymous, to appear in court in Britain.
The indictment alleges the four individuals plotted together and with others to carry out so-called distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. They were accused of launching DDoS attacks on the Serious Organised Crime Agency, the CIA, News International, Sony, US computer game firm Bethesda, web-based game Eve Online and the fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas, US. The four are also charged with conspiring to hack into computers operated by the NHS, News International, Sony, Nintendo, film studio 20th Century Fox, US public broadcaster PBS, and US computer security organisations HBGary, Black & Berg and Infraguard.