Anonymous member jailed over Scientology cyber attacks

May 26th, 2010

Brian Mettenbrink of Nebraska was sentenced this week to one year in prison and a $20,000 fine for orchestrating the DDoS attacks against the Church of Scientology’s website in 2008. Mettenbrink admitted to being a member of the group Anonymous, who staged a series of online attacks on Scientology websites as a protest over the religion’s censorship of the internet.

Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology

May 29th, 2009

In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Arbitration Committee of Wikipedia  has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates. Read more here