FBI arrests 14 in Anonymous hacking investigation

Source: CNet


Authorities have arrested 14 people today in the United States in connection with hacking attacks by the Anonymous group of online activists, sources said.

The arrests follow raids earlier in the day on homes in New York, California, New Jersey, and Florida, a law enforcement source told CBS News.

Details were not immediately available on the arrests, which a U.S. government official told CBS News and another unidentified source confirmed to CNET. An FBI spokesman in San Francisco confirmed that "the FBI is part of a nationwide investigation" into hacking, but said he could not comment further. A spokesman with the U.S. Department of Justice in San Francisco said he could not confirm or deny reports of the arrests.



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The script kiddies are busted.

scream the loudest if Anonymous went after some organization they happened to favor.

I've gotta wonder did they believe these hackers wouldn't be prosecuted? It's pretty clear they broke the law. Just because it's an organization or corporation that isn't particularly well liked, doesn't give you the right to go attack its property.

What I'd be interested is finding out (assuming these are indeed those responsible) is how they were found.

And just because the FBI went after these guys doesn't necessarily mean they won't be going after News Corp either, though with the political connections they have, I'm skeptical they'll get anything but a slap on the wrist.

Finger wagging from a high horse.

The FBI doesn't go after big-money interests; it goes after THREATS to their interests.

Similarly, the military doesn't protect the American People, but rather big-money interests.

Our government institutions, perhaps originally created by and for the People, have been taken over by and now work for big-money interests, at the expense of the rest of us.

obvious FACTS.

:thumbsup:

nevermind.

on the part of their targets, which were uncovered?

Source: Fox News

Sixteen suspected members of "Anonymous" were arrested this morning in states including Florida, New Jersey and California, in what appears to be a nationwide takedown of the notorious hacking group, FoxNews.com has exclusively learned.

The arrests and the 30 to 40 search warrants issued by the feds Tuesday are part of an ongoing investigation into Anonymous, which has claimed responsibility for numerous cyberattacks against a variety of websites including Visa and Mastercard.

Fourteen of the arrests were identified in the same indictment, while two separate criminal complaints filed out of courts in Newark, N.J., and Tampa, Fla., name the two other alleged hackers. All are believed to have been involved in carrying out nationwide coordinated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on multiple high-profile, billion-dollar companies.

Some of the arrests were out of the San Francisco field office, sources said, activity that followed searches earlier in the day in the New York area at residences believed to be associated with members of the hacking collective, FoxNews.com has learned.



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/19/exclusive-fbi-search-warrants-nationwide-hunt-anonymous/

by hacking govt e-mail?

:wow:

:shrug:

:crickets:

from people like Anonymous. In fact, I suspect that Anonymous just hacked News Corps.

Why would the Feds serve their employers warrants & subpoenas?

They just got the bad guys.

Murdoch and Fox News are safe from prosecution once again.
:patriot:

on the most helpful information to the citizens of this country. FOX or Anonymous. Anonymous or FOX.

Hopefully if they are found guilty they will serve a few decades.

Serious question.
Why?

This high-Tech Vandalism and theft is getting more serious, especially as the country's infrastructure becomes more technologically based (which it will have to do in order to become more green).

As it is now it is possible but extremely hard to cause death and injury through a keyboard but in the future it will become much more easy. If we punish the sociopaths who engage in this behavior hard and fast when they are found guilty now, there is a slim possibility that it might be a deterrent to the future bastards who engage in this kind of behavior.

Even the slowest of people are already aware that our economic and energy infrastructures are vulnerable at this point, Heck...even Leon Panetta is aware of this, and no one would ever accuse him of being overly bright.

lol, wat?
And it will be easier in the future?
How so?

or the clusterfuck of private companies that control them?

Ya know, ever heard of wall street and the economic chaos of even flirting with fucking with that would entail as a result?

Ya know..are you brain dead or just acting like it?

Like totally dude, like ya know, ever heard..ahh screw it.

Learn to think, if not think learn to read, if not read...well i suspect the first clause left you in the dust.

So how is the 6th Century treating you? That small pox is a bitch, but i hear pope gregory I will cure it with divine intervention.

"or the clusterfuck of private companies that control them?"

Oh my, the power went out, whatever shall we do?

"Ya know, ever heard of wall street and the economic chaos of even flirting with fucking with that would entail as a result?"

Couldn't give a rats ass for those fucks on Wall street nor would any economic collapse bother me at this point.

"Ya know..are you brain dead or just acting like it?"

Ya know, are you still beating your wife and pretending you have no idea what eating an ass out with a straw tastes like?

Like totally dude, like ya know, ever heard..ahh screw it.

"Learn to think, if not think learn to read, if not read...well i suspect the first clause left you in the dust."

Oh my, such snark! Such wit! How ever did you find a pillow big enough for your head?

"So how is the 6th Century treating you? That small pox is a bitch, but i hear pope gregory I will cure it with divine intervention."

Hmm, now this almost got me as a Native American-but I remembered, we didn't have Whites with all of those diseases here yet so....

Lol, Bro, you never know who is who, its DU.

Thanks for playing.

And planted a fake death notice for Murdok on the page. Also got their emails. And now the feds start rolling up anonymous, and Fox news gets the information first from the fbi and breaks the story. Welcome to the fourth reich, kids.

Not that I condone hacking and exposing. However, under the present circumstances I feel it's our only option. Circumstances being lack of a real fourth estate.

about it, they can get back to me when Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Murdoch and others like them have been sentenced to spend the rest of their worthless lives in prison.

I am sick. and. tired. :banghead:


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ETA> Reading down this thread. Gawd! The authoritarian mind-set of some posters here. :puke:

The only organization having an effective impact on the corporate facist state we are now living in. I find it disturbing to see idealistic young people staring at heavy prison time for using to only real tool left for change, while the so called "progressives" on this thread stand by and cheer for the jackboots.

...is that we bitch about the arrogance of the corporonazis like Murdoch - anonymous DOES SOMETHING ABOUT IT

Perchance you would also find people of a certain skin shade above the law as well? Economic background? Linguistic background? A certain threshold of wealth?

Sort out who is subject to the law and get back to me...I will not be waiting. You are not the first in history to believe in such tripe, and hardly the first to post it anonymously on a message board.

Egypt had laws too, they were used to oppress. Anonymous helped the egyptians get around "laws" that shut down their internet and cellphones. And while your worshiping laws, see if you can find good old habeus corpus and the fourth amendment. I'd like them back, please.

..."dude"?:P

You do have a passing acquaintance with technology don't you?

Ahh well, being ignorant of modern production is excusable, maybe they will orient you to it in your senior year.

Of electronics engineering in the 90s, so you are partially correct. You need to relax, ya know man, like I mean? The blue smoke is leaking out of your caps, dude! You know what that means....

U mad.

Come West Young Man, where men are still free, parking is available, no toll roads and going to the ghetto is actually something to look forward to.
Or continue living in a poisoned environment that is killing your sense of humor.

it would be interesting

.. (which I'm not necessarily against - god knows our own law enforcement agencies have no problem with corporate crime) you have to BE anonymous, not just name yourself anonymous.

A real hacker would not be traceable. Certainly not by the likes of the FBI.