14 DAY TRIAL // Back in February 2011, members of the Anonymous group (at the time they were a “group”) and their supporters launched distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against websites owned by Koch Industries.
A few months later, the world learned that the FBI had launched an investigation into the attacks.
Now, Kake reports that a 37-year-old man from Black Creek, Wisconsin, has been charged for his role in the attacks.
Eric J. Rosol has been charged with one count of damaging a protected computer and one count of conspiracy to damage a protected computer. If found guilty, the man could spend up to 5 years in prison for each count.
According to prosecutors, at the time of the attacks, Anonymous urged supporters to use the Low Orbit Ion Cannon to launch DDOS attacks against quiltednorthern.com and Kochind.com, both owned by Koch Industries.
Rosol was probably one of those individuals who wanted to take part in a hacktivist operation, but didn’t know how to hide his online tracks.