A MAN who took part in a cyber attack against Church of Scientology websites two years ago has been sentenced to one year in prison by a judge in Los Angeles.

Brian Mettenbrink from Nebraska was also ordered to serve one year of supervised release after his jail sentence ends after pleading guilty to what Judge Gary Feess described as a "sense of hate crime."



Mettenbrink had admitted a misdemeanor charge of unauthorised access of a protected computer.



According to court documents, Mettenbrink was part of the shadowy anti-Scientology group "Anonymous," which has conducted several protests against the church in recent years.



In January 2008 the group announced a cyber offensive which disabled access to Scientology's websites, prosecutors said.

Originally published as Man jailed over Scientology cyber attack