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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.

Nice. Hopefully this will slow down the hacking for a while. It's getting old now.

Nice car .

The hacking needs to stop. I hate nerds

Wish I could hack... He probably gets in the future job requests...

Thanks lol. :plank:

im sorry.. but you "hate nerds" if it wasnt for these "nerds" you wouldnt have all these small secrets that have been found...these "nerds" as you so politely put it are a very very big asset to this society we have here at ngu... sorry for the pure abuse here, but nerds are very good at what they do and should get more praise than what most are given...

I wounder if he'll snitch on the rest.

That's bad news

How you gonna name call when you don't know who I am or where I'm from? I am American but I'm from the south, I'm not mad that he is more than likely smarter than me, did you really call me a doughnut head?, and that little bitch was one of them behind the mass hacking where MY CREDIT CARD INFO WAS COMPROMISED so you can go **** your self whoever you are where ever you are.