16 Members of Anonymous arrested..

Justin87 · Jul 19, 2011

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tec...mes-many-belived-to-be-anonymous-members.html

The Justice Department said 16 individuals across the country have been arrested, all but two of whom are believed to be members of the Internet "hacktivist" group Anonymous. Federal officials also said police in Britain and the Netherlands arrested five more individuals on charges of hacking into computers.

After executing several raids around the U.S. early Tuesday morning, the FBI arrested 14 individuals who were allegedly behind a denial of service attack on PayPal Inc. late last year. Arrests were made in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico and Ohio.

Anonymous claimed to have attacked PayPal in December as part of "Operation Avenge Assange," the FBI said, after the e-commerce company suspended the account of the whistle-blower organization WikiLeaks when it began releasing classified information to the public.

The FBI released the names and online aliases of those arrested, except for one. The individuals arrested are Christopher Wayne Cooper, 23, aka "Anthrophobic;" Joshua John Covelli, 26, aka “Absolem” and “Toxic;” Keith Wilson Downey, 26; Mercedes Renee Haefer, 20, aka “No” and “MMMM;” Donald Husband, 29, aka “Ananon;” Vincent Charles Kershaw, 27, aka “Trivette,” “Triv” and “Reaper;” Ethan Miles, 33; James C. Murphy, 36; Drew Alan Phillips, 26, aka “Drew010;” Jeffrey Puglisi, 28, aka “Jeffer,” “Jefferp” and “Ji;” Daniel Sullivan, 22; Tracy Ann Valenzuela, 42; and Christopher Quang Vo, 22.

Separately in New Jersey, the FBI said it arrested Lance Moore, 21, who it said may have either worked for or aided the hacker group LulzSec last month. The individual is believed to have stolen information belonging to AT&T Inc. valued at more than $5,000, according to a court document released by the FBI. The stolen information was later published by the hacker group, the FBI said in a news release.

The FBI also said Scott Matthew Arciszewski, 21, was arrested in Orlando, Fla. Arciszewski is suspected of hacking the Tamp Bay Infragard website, which is affiliated with the FBI.

Five more hackers were arrested in Europe. The FBI worked with the British Metropolitan Police Service to arrest another individual and with the Dutch National Police Agency to arrest four others.
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Don't fuck with corporations, I guess...

Sillymonkey · Jul 19, 2011

US government are a bunch of manipulative bastards. Sure they did that, but they were opposing the way the US government turns people into scapegoats and alienates them from society.

BARDIA SAEEDI · Jul 19, 2011

wow, funnyhow much damage a bunch of IT nerds can do..

Scottay · Jul 19, 2011

You would think that they would be focused on more important things. Other than the Scott guy its not like they compromised any government operations. These people are just scapegoats, if the government arrested everyone that ddosed a website the jails would be more full than they already are.

Billetes · Jul 19, 2011

Yeah they caught 20 people out of how many? This is nothing and most likely those caught were probably rookies.

Mantitz · Jul 19, 2011

more /b/rothers will take their places

kill dank · Jul 19, 2011

Billetes said: ↑

This is nothing and most likely those caught were probably rookies.
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Obviously because they got caught.

Loyal 2 da game · Jul 19, 2011

Lol at the 40 year old that's either a woman or w guy with the name Tracy. Pretty pathetic, though imagine their faces with the FBI probably busted through their door.

Neat Monster · Jul 20, 2011

Hacktivist groups are extremely scary imo. I have no problem with them when they're just trying to harass big corrupt corporations like PayPal (they fucking deserve it) but releasing sensitive information is just fucked up, especially when we're dealing with personal information or highly sensitive shit from like the CIA.

FireZ · Jul 20, 2011

Neat Monster said: ↑

Hacktivist groups are extremely scary imo. I have no problem with them when they're just trying to harass big corrupt corporations like PayPal (they fucking deserve it) but releasing sensitive information is just fucked up, especially when we're dealing with personal information or highly sensitive shit from like the CIA.
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Your pardon was denied, that doesnt mean come back with a new account.

OT - They probably won't get much out of these people info wise either

Noodles :) · Jul 20, 2011

^lulz.

I'm waiting for them to catch Lulzsec.

Um0d · Jul 20, 2011

That's so epic fail.

mepku · Jul 20, 2011

Great story, and if it wasn't for sythe i never would have known.

Love sythe

Josh0is0here · Jul 20, 2011

Take notes kiddies, don't mess with Paypal or the USA. Anonymous, is still going to be around even after this arrests, they seem to be constantly getting arrested and others will take their place.

borntobeBossirl · Jul 20, 2011

epic fail ;d

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