09:32 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nA 19-year-old charged with hacking the website of the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, a court has heard.<\/p>\n
Ryan Cleary, from Wickford, Essex, was arrested as part of a Scotland Yard and FBI probe into online hacking group LulzSec.<\/p>\n
His counsel told City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court he suffers from the form of autism, along with agoraphobia.<\/p>\n
He was granted bail, but remains in custody after prosecutors objected.<\/p>\n
Ben Cooper, defending Mr Cleary, said he was concerned the alleged hacker would have to remain in custody over the weekend.<\/p>\n
The court was told he is of high intelligence but has difficulty interacting with other people.<\/p>\n
But prosecutors refused to reconsider their bail appeal.<\/p>\n
Mr Cleary is alleged to have set up a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) on 20 June.<\/p>\n
A DDOS attack typically involves flooding a target website with data, in an attempt to overwhelm it so it cannot serve its legitimate users.<\/p>\n
‘Botnet conspiracy’<\/span><\/p>\nHe has been accused of attacking the website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry in November 2010.<\/p>\n
And Mr Cleary also allegedly attacked the British Phonographic Industry’s website in October.<\/p>\n
He was charged under the Criminal Law Act and Computer Misuse Act by the Met Police’s e-crime unit.<\/p>\n
The charges against Mr Cleary include conspiring with other unknown people on or before 20 June to construct a botnet – a collection of hijacked home computers – to conduct distributed denial of service attacks.<\/p>\n
He is also charged with making, adapting, supplying or offering to supply a botnet, intending that it should be used to commit, or to assist in the commission of a distributed denial of service attack.<\/p>\n
The bail appeal will go to a Plea and Case Management Hearing at Southwark Crown Court on 30 August.<\/p>\n
If Mr Cleary wins bail he will be banned from having any possession which can access the internet.<\/p>\n
No internet access will be allowed at his home, which he will be prohibited from leaving without his mother, Rita Cleary.<\/p>\n
Mr Cleary has not entered a plea to any of the charges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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