The FBI has arrested two suspected members of the hacktivist groups Anonymous and LulzSec, according to Fox News. The alleged hackers were taken into custody this morning.
Cody Kretsinger (who uses the alias “recursion”), 23, of Pheonix is accused of being a LulzSec member and charged with conspiracy and the unauthorized impairment of a protected computer. A suspected Anonymous member described as homeless and living in San Francisco was also arrested this morning.
Search warrants in New Jersey, Minnesota, and Montana have also been issued, and charges against Joshua Covelli, 26, of Ohio and Christopher Doyan (who goes by the handle “Commander X”), 47, of Mountain View, California (who may be the man arrested in San Francisco this morning, it was not clear as of press time) have been secured. Both have been charged with conspiracy to cause intentional damage to a protected computer, causing intentional damage to a protected computer, and aiding and abetting.
Kretsinger and Doyon are believed to have been part of a DDoS attack on Santa Cruz County servers in 2010. Kretsinger was specifically singled out as participating in the months-long attack on Sony’s PlayStation Network. Officials say he erased hard drives used to carry out the SQL injection.
The news breaks as Anonymous members are rallying on Wall Street and planning a “Day of Vengeance” for September 24 to protest the “corruption of our financial institutions.” Since the hacktivist groups rose to prominence this year, the corporate and government world have felt their wrath. But they have also become the focus of criminal investigations, and recently international efforts to find and punish the responsible parties have picked up steam.
Check out Kretsinger’s indictment below.
jajaja good joke
Jokes, you got’em ha ha
Can’t arrest an idea. Good luck
Four words, “according to Fox news”.
@JesterKing – There was never anonymity on the internet. What greater example do you need than this article? The men in black will always find you in the end. It’s apparently trendy for hackers to pretend like their political and have something to contribute to the world. Transparency. Freedom of information. Cute words for dressing up criminal behavior. Funny how no one bought this line of X – despite their obvious need to find support from the general public. These hacker “organizations” are a collection of anarchists whom would rather destroy than create. Instead of helping individuals and businesses to secure information, protect society – they make egocentric, self-involved, grandiose statements that were obviously disproved. Statements like, we will never be identified. We will never be prosecuted. Well, that didn’t work out so well – did it? It’s easy to destroy things. It takes action, planning, fortitude, strength to create things – help people. Try putting some positive energy into the world, hackers. Use your knowledge to improve things for the greater good of all of society.
Anonymous:
a·non·y·mousAdjective/əˈnänəməs/
1. (of a person) Not identified by name; of unknown name.
2. Having no outstanding, individual, or unusual features; unremarkable or impersonal
Point is, if you “suspect” you have a member of anon, you don’t. Because there are no official members. How hard is that for people to understand?
I lol’d
Who was it who said the trouble with living outside the law is you don’t enjoy its protection?
Four words, “according to Fox news”.
Can’t arrest an idea. Good luck
Meet the Fawkers.
LOL right you “Got them”
interesting that UAT has an image of a Cody Kretsinger in an article that’s not open to the public:
http://www.uat.edu/newsltr/news_ltr_imgs/sotm/1281_cody-kretsinger_NLfeature.jpg
This is wrong.