Police Detain 3 Suspects in Sony Hacker Attack

According 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."

Three suspected members of the Anonymous hacking group have been arrested in Spain.



The trio are said to have been involved in co-ordinating the group's activity in that country.

The arrests were made simultaneously in three Spanish cities - Barcelona, Valencia and Almeria.

Anonymous has claimed responsibility for attacks on Sony,
Spanish banks and co-ordinated action in defence of whistle-blowing site
Wikileaks.


A statement from the Spanish national police force said that a
computer seized in the home of one person it arrested was used in the
hacks.

The arrests were the culmination of an investigation that began in October 2010.


It involved Spanish cyber police combing through millions of
lines of chat logs to identify who was behind the group's activities.

Some of the attacks made by Anonymous members used a
web-based tool called Loic to bombard target sites with data. The
websites of PayPal, Mastercard and Amazon were all targeted using this
tool.

It seems that Loic did a poor job of hiding the identity of
the people using it. It is believed that some police forces have already
moved against the group based on this information.

Arrests have been made in the US, UK and Holland of Anonymous members, prior to the raids in Spain.
Anonymous grew out of the online picture sharing site 4Chan and describes itself as a group of concerned internet citizens.

As well as attacking sites that it perceives as not
supporting Wikileaks. The loosely organised collective has also attacked
government sites in Tunisia and Egypt to aid popular protest movements.

heh 4chan ^^