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A British teenager has been charged with five offences of computer hacking.

Ryan Cleary, 19, was charged with offences, including a cyber attack on Monday on Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca).

Cleary was arrested on Monday evening at his family's home in Wickford, Essex.

His arrest was linked to a series of cyber attacks by a group called LulzSec, which investigators believe had targeted websites including ones belonging to the US government and the electronics giant Sony.

Cleary was charged over cyber attacks on targets including the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and the British Phonographic Industry as well as on Soca. The investigation into whether he is involved in any other attacks is continuing.

The Metropolitan police said: "A 19-year-old man has this afternoon been charged with offences under the Criminal Law Act and Computer Misuse Act by officers from the Metropolitan police service's police central e-crime unit (PCeU)."

Scotland Yard cyber crime detectives spent Tuesday and Wednesday questioning Cleary, 19, over the attacks carried out by the LulzSec group, which mostly targeted websites belonging to institutions and companies in the US.

Computer equipment seized from his home was examined to see if it contained evidence linking him to the attacks.

Cleary will appear at City of Westminster magistrates court on Thursday morning.

The events leading to the arrest of Cleary involved an investigation by British police and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI's involvement, plus the nature of the targets, raised the prospect that Washington may seek the teenager's extradition to the US.

donut head... well um thats cool i guess.. errr is that really the best you could think of but yeah back on topic im glad they caught him it is getting really old and boring now.. i wish they would just move on with their life and just let it go, what were they expecting sony to just lay down and take it.. for someone so smart he clearly hasnt covered his tracks well.. hes quite the.. wait for it.. "donut head" :run:

another blow to freedom :lol:

He was only part of the DDoS
Also helped control one of the IRC lulzsec used

From their twitter feed.
All i know he small beans and people are doing it to protest it still against the law.

british bitch? whats british gotta do with it? it doesnt matter where he is from, but i can tell your a narrow minded kid who still lives in his moms basement like the typical American Fat F*cker....

The kid was just too big for his own shoes.

Fail...nobodies credit card information was released and nothing happened to the 'numbers' because they were all encrypted...

ur a nerd yourself for being on this website

Are you a retard the fact he's british has to do with him being british if he was American I'd have said American so go suck a dick troll bitch.

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Wow what a fag ass slow person. Sony is being sued cause it wasn't encrypted and they even admitted it.

Ahh boo hoo your credit card was compromised, Mine, My Dads and half of the ****ing worlds were, All you have to do is get of your fat ass and ring up the supplier and cancel the card, which is what smart people do, stop crying about something that happened two months ago!