Sabu , the most notorious hacker alive and de facto leader of LulzSec , has been captured by the FBI , and plain turned against his hack comrades . This ishow the FBI caught himand made him blab .
https://gizmodo.com/lulzsec-leader-betrays-all-of-anonymous-5890825
agree to a FOX scoop , the 28 - year - onetime Hector Xavier Monsegur was living in the Jacob Riis housing complex in New York ’s Lower East Side . The were able to regain his address because he slue up and lumber into an IRC chatroom without masking his IP . It only happened once , but that was enough .
They start surveillance , and keep the “ brainy but lazy ” Anonymous leader under watch for weeks . But then a rival hacker doxed Sabu , invest his name and personal identity up online , and the feds had to move before he started trashing all of his hard drives and data point — thereby destroying any evidence the feds hop to collect .
They moved :
agent had already subpoena Sabu ’s Facebook account , finding stolen credit carte du jour bit he was selling to other hackers . They had enough to charge him with aggravate identicalness stealing , which carries a two - class minimum conviction . But as the brains behind LulzSec , the man staring across the doorway at them on that summer Nox last class was much more valuable as a join forces attestator .
“ It ’s not me , you got the untimely guy , ” Monsegur said , according to sources who witnessed the interaction . “ I do n’t have a computer . ”
Behind Monsegur , the factor saw the Ethernet cable snaking to his DSL modem , green Light Within blink on and off .
Apparently , he crack under a passably rudimentary unspoiled copper / big cop shtick from the federal agent . That seems singular , but apparently the driving force behind it was the mountain of evidence against him , and the scourge of going away and take to leave his kids . Which goes to show that for all the comradery in the on-line community , it ’s really hard to weigh that against flesh and blood family .
Thefull item over at FOXare well deserving a read ; you canfind them here . [ FOX ]
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