Police Detain 3 Suspects in Sony Hacker AttackAccording to multiple news sources such as the New York Times and CNN,
police said today they have arrested three men suspected of being
leaders of Anonymous, the group accused of attacking Sony's PlayStation
network and subsequently forcing SOE to shut down its services from May 2-14.The first suspect, a 31-year-old Spaniard, was detained in the
Spanish city of Almería sometime after May 18. According to the New York
Times, "He had a computer server in his apartment in the northern
Spanish port city of Gijón, where the group is believed to have
attacked the Web sites of the Sony PlayStation online gaming store."
The two other suspects, both in their early 30s, were arrested in
Barcelona and Alicante following attacks against the websites of the
Spanish Parliament, the UGT trade union and the Catalan regional police.
According to CNN, "The police did not immediately provide further
details about the suspects, nor did they specify to what extent the
Spanish branch of Anonymous might have participated in the recent
attacks on Sony's PlayStation."