Los Angeles ( CNN ) -- A 24-year-old Connecticut man affiliated with the Anonymous hacking group was arrested and charged Tuesday with electronically attacking the website belonging to Gene Simmons of the rock band KISS , authorities said . Kevin George Poe , of Manchester , Connecticut , made an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Hartford on Tuesday , and a judge ordered him released in lieu of a $ 10,000 bond , federal prosecutors said . Poe is charged with two counts : conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer , prosecutors said . He was ordered to appear in federal court in Los Angeles at an undetermined date , prosecutors said . The servers to GeneSimmons.com , the website belonging to the KISS band member , are based in Los Angeles , said Thom Mrozek , spokesman for the U.S. Attorney 's office in Los Angeles . Poe 's federal public defender did n't respond to messages late Tuesday . Using the screen name of spydr101 , Poe joined other persons linked to Anonymous and allegedly conducted a `` distributed denial of service '' attack against Simmons ' website during a five-day period in October 2010 . That attack allegedly involved sending tens of thousands of electronic requests designed to overload the website and shut it down , a prosecutor 's statement said . Poe allegedly used the computer program Low Orbit Ion Cannon -- `` a favorite software tool of the Anonymous collective '' -- to send a high volume of `` packets '' or requests in an effort to overwhelm the server , prosecutors said . If convicted of both charges , Poe could face up to 15 years in federal prison , prosecutors said .
Kevin George Poe , 24 , of Connecticut is accused of being an Anonymous hacker . He allegedly attacked KISS band member GeneSimmons.com in October 2010 . Poe allegedly overwhelmed the website 's server with electronic requests .