3 suspects arrested - PSN Hack

CliffyBiro · 11 Jun 2011 at 00:08

Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- Police said Friday they had arrested the top three suspected leaders in Spain of the international computer hacker network called Anonymous, which is suspected of numerous cyber-attacks on Sony's PlayStation network and government and business websites.

Anonymous has gained international notoriety over the last several years for its computer-security attacks on major companies, including MasterCard and Visa and government websites for Tunisia and Egypt.

Sony Computer Entertainment president and America division chairman, Kazuo Hirai, sent a letter to the U.S. Congress last month saying that Sony had found a file that could link the attack against Sony to Anonymous.

The Spanish police said in a statement that their investigation began last October after Spain's Ministry of Culture's website was overloaded in a so-called denial of service attack, to protest Spanish legislation aimed at cracking down on illegal computer downloads.

The first arrest, of the three, came soon after a cyber-attack May 18 against a Spanish National Electoral Commission website just days before local and regional elections.

Police said they arrested a 31-year-old suspect in southern Almeria province and later seized from his home in the northern port city of Gijon a computer server that was used to coordinate and execute the attacks.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/BUSINESS/06/10/spain.hackers/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

The entire basis of the link then is just that Anonymous related file that the hackers left behind? Seems... iffy.

insane200 · 11 Jun 2011 at 00:20

As much as id like to see something good come of all this, i think it will make these nobbers do even worse.

It seems like the hacking scene has gone mad lately, codemasters, the NHS whats the point in it all.

Semiskimmed · 11 Jun 2011 at 00:48

i feel sorry for the poor bugger who does get caught for ONE of them, theyre surely goign to have the other ones thrown onto them

LeJosh · 11 Jun 2011 at 00:50

insane200 said:
As much as id like to see something good come of all this, i think it will make these nobbers do even worse.

It seems like the hacking scene has gone mad lately, codemasters, the NHS whats the point in it all.

To show companies their security system is flawed and open to attack so they can better them, mostly.

K1LLSW1TCH · 11 Jun 2011 at 00:51

I wonder if they have ways of making him talk. -_-

CliffyBiro · 11 Jun 2011 at 00:53

K1LLSW1TCH said:
I wonder if they have ways of making him talk. -_-

K1LLSW1TCH · 11 Jun 2011 at 00:55

Oh God not Monty Python...

Does anyone actually find it funny?

Tute · 11 Jun 2011 at 01:00

LeJosh said:
To show companies their security system is flawed and open to attack so they can better them, mostly.

Do you actually believe this?

Anonymous and LulzSec are just the dregs of society, trying to get people to pay them attention by causing trouble. The fact that Sony et al are easy to hack is really beside the point - after all, if I left my front door wide open it's still illegal to walk in and fill your boots, and it doesn't make you any less of a **** for doing it.

Substance · 11 Jun 2011 at 01:43

Anonymous straight up said they didn't have anything to do with the attacks on sony,

They usually stand up and take credit for their work too

Dyson · 11 Jun 2011 at 06:39

Tute said:
Do you actually believe this?

Anonymous and LulzSec are just the dregs of society, trying to get people to pay them attention by causing trouble. The fact that Sony et al are easy to hack is really beside the point - after all, if I left my front door wide open it's still illegal to walk in and fill your boots, and it doesn't make you any less of a **** for doing it.

But if they didn't claim responsibility for "proving your lack of security", they clearly didn't do it. Anyway, they'd be helping you, so would deserve your thanks

I personally think it'd be amazing if was proven to be Anonymous, so many people have said it can't be them, "as it's not their style"...

Tute · 11 Jun 2011 at 11:26

Dyson said:
Anyway, they'd be helping you, so would deserve your thanks

Sorry, but if someone stole from me, the last thing i'd do is thank them, poor security or not.

I can't believe people actually think these people are helping companies, it seems in our desperation to "stick it to the corporations", our brains have rotted and died. :eek:

Dyson · 11 Jun 2011 at 11:31

Tute said:
Sorry, but if someone stole from me, the last thing i'd do is thank them, poor security or not.

I can't believe people actually think these people are helping companies, it seems in our desperation to "stick it to the corporations", our brains have rotted and died.

I was joking! I think we share pretty much the same views on this matter myself, I fail to understand how/why people hold them up on a pedestal.

Tute · 11 Jun 2011 at 11:33

Oh right, sorry. Forgive me, tired!

Bennie-Mac · 11 Jun 2011 at 12:16

I was reading about this last night, according to the updated article from Reuters

"Spanish police alleged the three "hackivists" helped organize an attack that temporarily shuttered access to some Sony websites. They were not linked to the two massive cyber attacks against Sony's Playstation Network that resulted in the theft of information from more than 100million customers."