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An unnamed 24-year-old in New South Wales, Australia, was arrested for defacing a government website, the BBC reports.
This individual is the "self-proclaimed leader" of hacking group LulzSec, a splinter group of Anonymous, the BBC says.
The group has waged several high profile attacks against major organizations like Sony and the CIA since forming in 2011.
The alleged hacker is charged with two counts of "unauthorized modification of data to cause impairment" and one count of "unauthorized access to restricted data," which has him looking at up to 12 years in prison.
Originally posted by dc4lifeskater
nah he isnt the leader... but good story.
Originally posted by thesmokingman
Originally posted by dc4lifeskater
nah he isnt the leader... but good story.
Do you have something to back that statement up?
According to unsealed court documents released yesterday and obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Monsegur was "proactively" cooperating with theFBI, helping the government agency build its cases against alleged hackers. Monsegur's work with the government became an around-the-clock job, as he stayed up all night at times coaxing alleged hackers into conversations that were recorded and eventually used against them by the FBI.
Originally posted by thesmokingman
reply to post by jjsr420
Well.....private information is private for a reason. Would you want every one going through YOUR personal information?
Since the initial Australian police report, several of the country's publications have outed the suspect as Matthew Flannery, a support technician at IT security provider Content Security, contracted by the larger firm Tenable Network Security.
Flannery, who was known online as Aush0k, was evidently arrested at his place of work by the Australian Federal Police, though his employer seemed to downplay his level of access to any customer data by describing him as a “low-level support tech.”
Originally posted by Kali74
reply to post by eXia7
That's not exactly what happened. Sabu was caught by the FBI and he made a deal, they all have a 'tell' to let the others know if they've been compromised.