FBI arrests 16 Anons across US; UK police pick up LulzSec member

[DainBramaged]

The FBI has made a series of raids at addresses across the US and arrested 16 people accused of participating in Anonymous-branded cyberattacks. Arrests were made in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Ohio, with further raids and equipment seizures conducted in New York.

14 of those arrested have been charged with conspiring with others to damage computer systems belonging to PayPal. PayPal was the victim of a distributed denial of service attack performed by Anonymous after the site blocked the ability to donate money to WikiLeaks, an action named "Operation Avenge Assange." The defendents range in age from 20 to 42 years old, with 11 males and two females; the 14th defendent has had his or her name withheld.

Separately, a 21-year-old man was arrested for breaking into the InfraGard Web site, tweeting about what he did, and providing instructions so that others could also break in.

Finally, another 21-year-old man was arrested for stealing confidential information from AT&T's systems while working as a customer support contractor. This is the data that was published as part of LulzSec's retirement from the public eye.

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2011/07/fbi-arrests-16-anons-across-us-uk-police-pick-up-lulzsec-member.ars


But Bush and Cheney and a host of other scum go unpunished,

[global1]

1. Is This The Same Group That Hacked Into And Now Has A Trove Of News Corp E-mails?......

Perhaps someone is worried as to what is in those e-mails. Hmmmm....... Perhaps this group was getting too close to the truth.

[krispos42]

2. They arrested somebody for stealing secret information from AT&T?

:rofl:

I figure they would have gotten a Medal of Freedom and a tax cut.

[Pacifist Patriot]

3. Anyone else feel like they're living inside a movie script?

[formercia]

4. 1930's J Edgar Hoover Spectacular

Rounding up the little Fish, while His Mafia and Bankster buddies are raking in the loot.

Same MO, different Generation.

[Edweird]

5. They need to work on the whole anonymous aspect of "Anonymous".

If the feds are at your door ur doin it wrong.

[nc4bo]

6. They should have been much more careful especially for hackers!

Love how aggressive our government is in going after these people while Bush & Co., wallstreet theives, oil companies, etc. walk alway unscathed and untouched.