A man in Wisconsin has been charged with participation in a distributed denial-of-service attack in February, 2011 against Koch Industries by hacker group Anonymous .

Eric J. Rosol, 37, of Black Creek, Wisconsin is charged with one count of conspiracy to damage a protected computer and another count of damaging a protected computer, the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Kansas said on Wednesday.

He is alleged to have participated in a Feb. 28 attack using Low Orbit Ion Cannon against a Koch Industries website, “Kochind.com.” The company is privately held with headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, and has businesses in a number of areas including oil and manufacturing.

LOIC is a popular DDoS tool used by Anonymous and other online attackers to overload websites with requests and disrupt the target server.

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