Lulzsec Arrests: Five Members Arrested By FBI In New York

Lulzsec

Huffington Post UK   First Posted: 6/03/2012 15:20 Updated: 7/03/2012 08:19

Three key members of the computer hacking collective LulzSec were arrested in New York, according to news wires.

Fox News reports that the group's leader, Hector Xavier Monsegur, known as Sabu, worked with the FBI to bring down the hacker collective.

Court papers revealed that Monsegur was charged with 12 criminal counts of conspiracy to engage in computer hacking and other crimes in court papers in Manhattan federal court.

The Lulzsec leader pleaded guilty to executing cyber attacks on PayPal and MasterCard, according to The Guardian and The Montreal Gazette.

A teenager was also arrested in Ireland today in connection with the Lulzsec cyber attacks, according to PA.

A spokesman for Irish police said the investigation was being run by the Garda Bureau for Fraud Investigation and officers were liaising with international counterparts.

His arrest brings the number of arrests to five.

The three people arrested in New York will be charged. The details of the charges are being made public in court documents on Tuesday morning, New York time.

Lulzsec is a loosely-aligned hacker collective that is responsible for high profile cyber-attacks on Sony Pictures, the CIA website and the FBI.

The group reportedly retired, as seen in the video below. Their attempts to stay out of the limelight however, have evidently failed to deter the FBI.

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Three key members of the computer hacking collective LulzSec were arrested in New York, according to news wires. Fox News reports that the group's leader, Hector Xavier Monsegur, known as Sabu, wor...
Three key members of the computer hacking collective LulzSec were arrested in New York, according to news wires. Fox News reports that the group's leader, Hector Xavier Monsegur, known as Sabu, wor...
 
 
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02:37 PM on 03/08/2012
Welcome to the new global world where teenagers sitting in their room can hack into the CIA, the U.S. Senate, the Vatican, Visa, Master Card, Interpol and take down Sony playstations for days, all while mum’s cooking dinner in the next room. This is just the beginning. The real threat worldwide to government security, power grids, financial markets "and all" are Cyber attacks that can be orchestrated by teenagers with these special sets of skills. As the politics in the states spends more and more time talking issues that will take them back to some imaginary place in their minds, these real and true dangers are growing throughout the world. What's next a mentally deranged "hacktivist" who breaks into a super powers weapons system and holds the entire world hostage? It could happen. This is the perfect moment to wake up American politics. For far too long conservatives have pandered to a “fringe element” who has our political system completely polarized. For once and for all we all have to realize this is a new world with new global threats so get the focus off the guns, and women’s issues, and “taking your country back” and join in with the facts and the knowledge that preparing ourselves for this new world will require
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11:43 PM on 03/06/2012
Silly boys, they thought they'd get away, they're not as smart as they thought, and now they'll be Buba's companion for a very long time, Buba is super excited!
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11:41 PM on 03/06/2012
Great going authorities! nail em, one-by-one! teach them a lesson, ensure that they think long and hard before they play their silly games ever again!
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05:12 PM on 03/06/2012
>Three key members of the computer hacking collective LulzSec in New York, according to news wires.
I can haz English plz?
05:07 PM on 03/06/2012
As the arrests continue more will rat out their buddies.
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Ridlion
04:39 PM on 03/06/2012
So Hector squealed and got everyone busted, way to go buddy!
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Paul Wagland
Resistance is fertile
03:33 PM on 03/06/2012
Good news guys - top jobs in the security services await you!
03:57 PM on 03/06/2012
You seem a little mature to believe in those fairy tales these young guys believe. Not only will they be spending plenty of jail time, but they might also be named in private law suits from those companies that were affected.
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05:15 PM on 03/06/2012
I think they are naive, but out of interest what are the fairy tales they believe in?