Four members of the infamous and largely British LulzSec hacking group that carried a string of high-profile distributed denial of DDoS attacks in 2011 have been handed relatively lenient prison terms of up to 32 months by the judge at Southwark Crown Court in the UK.
The bare facts are that Ryan Cleary, 21, and Ryan Ackroyd, 26, were given prison terms of 32 and 30 months respectively, while Jake Davis ('Topiary'), 20, will spend 24 months in a young offender's institution; Mustafa Al-Bassam, 18, was handed a 20 month suspended sentence.
All will be watched by the authorities for up to five years after their eventual release.
US laws are tougher
Although these sentences count as relatively severe by UK standards for hacking offenses, they are probably mild compared to the terms that might have been handed out in the U.S. where collaborator and former LulzSec leader Hector Xavier Monsegur ('Sabu') has so far won sentencing delays only after turning police informer.
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