The New York Times is reporting that three members of the ‘shadowy international network of computer hackers known as Anonymous’ have been arrested in Spain. The source of the news is a statement from the Spanish National Police.
A 31-year-old man from the city of Almería was arrested sometime after May 18th and police found a server in his apartment that was used to attack the Sony group of websites including the PS Store. Two other suspects were arrested in Barcelona and Valencia.
The Police say the same computer was also used to attack ‘two Spanish banks, BBVA and Bankia, the Italian energy company Enel, as well as government sites in Spain, Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Iran, Chile, Colombia and New Zealand’.
Spanish police have analysed over two million lines of chat logs and web pages to identify the ‘hacktavists’.
We’ll keep you posted on any further news.
Source: NY Times
mousearmy
Don’t get too excited. They don’t seem to be tied to the PSN hack. Not really a great surprise.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/spain-arrests-3-anons-for-sony-bank-hacks-anonops-vows-revenge.ars
hazelam
so they only attacked an electoral board, the police and a trade union?
that still makes them scumbags in my book, maybe even more so.
and anyway, this should still stand as a warning to those who did hack sony, they can be found.
they’re not the heroes they make themselves out to be.
the thing is, i agree that the things they claim to be against are wrong, but i cannot agree with their methods.
what they’re doing is terrorism, even if they are just out to right wrongs, which i’m inclined to disbelieve, this is not the way to do it.
BrainDiver
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