The ELO guitarist admitted to his involvement in the Anonymous operation at the hearing before the sentence was pronounced.
He also promised the Judge never to return to the United States after his release.
Operation Payback
The Anonymous campaign calledOperation Paybackwas a coordinated attack against the opponents of Internet piracy.
Anonymous started the Operation Payback started as retaliation to DDoS attacks on torrent sites by anti piracy lobby.
The Anonymous then allegedly took down many anti-piracy websites all over the world through coordinated DDoS attacks.
Anonymous then turned the Operation Payback against such banks which had withdrawn the banking facilities.
Geoffreys Role in Operation Payback.
MasterCard had reported later that it recorded a $1 million loss due to this DDoS attack.
source: www.techworm.net
