Spanish police arrest Anonymous hacking suspects

[Jack]

Spanish police have arrested three men, suspected of being members of the notorious Anonymous online protest group.

The men, whose names have not been made public, were detained in Alicante, Almeria and Barcelona.

Spain's Technological Investigation Brigade (BIT), the police unit who conducted the investigation, have held a live TV press conference about the arrests. According to BIT the men operated a cell of Anonymous, directing internet attacks against the likes of the Sony PlayStation store, and websites belonging to the governments of Egypt, Chile, Iran, Colombia, Algeria and Libya.

Fascinatingly, the authorities posted images on Twitter of IRC logs that appeared to show plans to attack Spanish police websites and the electoral board with a distributed denial-of-service attack.

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[jamescv7]

Good for authorities that they traced the suspects. Surely they will find the others too.

 

[Vextor]

Massive move. This will allow them to track IP Addresses of numerous other people and bring them to justice. The server takedown was the biggest move towards closing Anonymous.

 

[Jack]

I do think the Spain's Technological Investigation Brigade were monitoring this group from some time and they've only acted because the logs were showing plans to attack official state infrastructure as the Spanish police websites and the electoral board.
With this in mind I bet that other members of Anonymous are monitored around the world....

 

[LoftedAphid86]

I am rather glad that Anonymous members are finally starting to be caught and arrested.
Though until they get to the leader, more will keep coming, so it isn't over yet.

 

[jamescv7]

I do think the Spain's Technological Investigation Brigade were monitoring this group from some time and they've only acted because the logs were showing plans to attack official state infrastructure as the Spanish police websites and the electoral board.
With this in mind I bet that other members of Anonymous are monitored around the world....

If that's so then it will be easy on the Spanish authorities to track them down and arrest them. Anonymous must put down at the end but who knows when.

 

[Ink]

Ties in nicely to this, published yesterday:

Three Suspects Allegedly Linked To Hacking Sony PlayStation Network Arrested In Spain

Spanish police said today it has arrested three people who were allegedly involved in the PlayStation Network attacks that brought the system to a halt last month. The hackers are said to be part of "Anonymous", a semi-centralized activist group known for bringing down several government websites in the past.

One of the hackers, a 31-year-old man who hosted a server in his apartment that was used to hack PlayStation Network, was arrested in the city of Almería on May 18th. The remaining two suspects were arrested in the cities of Barcelona and Valencia, although the statement by the Spanish National Police doesn’t detail where.

Edit: It's the same post, my bad.