U.S. charges members of hacking group Anonymous

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Six suspected leaders of the international hacking organization known as Anonymous were charged by U.S. authorities of computer crimes, dealing a major blow to the loose-knit group that has wreaked havoc on the websites of government agencies and major corporations. Among those charged was Hector Xavier…

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Members of hacking group LulzSec arrested

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. authorities said on Tuesday top members of the LulzSec computer hacking group were arrested and its leader had previously pleaded guilty to carrying out over a dozen cyber attacks on major companies. Hector Xavier Monsegur, known as "Sabu," was charged with 12 criminal counts of…

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25 suspected members of hacker group nabbed

PARIS – Interpol said yesterday that 25 suspected members of the loose-knit Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in a sweep across Europe and South America. The international police agency said in a statement that the arrests in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain had been carried out by national law-enforcement…

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Hacker group says it broke into city site

<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 10–> Hackers affiliated with the group Anonymous are taking credit for hacking the Springfield city website and obtaining the Social Security numbers and other personal information of thousands of citizens. City officials announced Monday that the springfieldmo.gov site was hacked Feb. 17 and that about 2,100 people…

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Hacker group Anonymous teams up with WikiLeaks

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Anonymous defended WikiLeaks when it was facing a funding cutoff, but the release of the Stratfor emails appears to be the first direct collaboration between the hackers and the anti-secrecy site. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was coy about the source of the more than five million emails…

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Hacker group Anonymous threatens Vic Toews

The hacker group Anonymous is demanding Public Safety Minister Vic Toews kill the Internet surveillance bill and resign or it will release "information" during what it calls "Operation White North." View full post on anonymous hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security

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