'Anonymous' hacker charged in breach of KISS' Gene Simmons' website

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/12/man-feds-say-connected-to-anonymous-hackers-man-charged-in-kiss-hacking-case.html

By Andrew Blankstein
The Los Angeles Times
December 13, 2011

A Connecticut man who federal authorities say is linked to the hacking 
group anonymous has been charged with trying to shut down the website 
operated by KISS frontman Gene Simmons.

Kevin George Poe, 24, of Manchester, Conn., was taken into custody 
without incident by FBI agents at the federal courthouse in Hartford.

Poe allegedly used the screen name spydr101 to a make denial of service 
attack against GeneSimmons.com. He was charged in a federal grand jury 
indictment in Los Angeles with one count each of conspiracy and 
unauthorized impairment of a protected computer.

If convicted of the two counts in the indictment, Poe would face a 
statutory maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison. The case 
against Poe originated with an investigation by the Los Angeles field 
office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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