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March 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The FBI may be having the “last lulz” today after arresting five top LulzSec members based on reports from one of the group’s own.
Police in the U.S., Great Britain and Ireland took the men, alleged to be top members of Lulzsec, into custody Tuesday morning. The arrests were made based on intelligence handed to police by Hector Xavier Monsegur, or “Sabu,” who is considered to be the leader of LulzSec. Monsegur had been “secretly arrested” and turned into a “cooperating witness” by the FBI, according to a Fox News report.
[More from Mashable: Anonymous: We Were Infiltrated by Police]
“This is devastating to the organization,” an FBI official told FoxNews.com. “We’re chopping off the head of LulzSec.”
According to the report, the unemployed Monsegur ran Lulzsec’s operations from public housing on New York’s Lower East Side. He pleaded guilty last August to charges of computer-related crimes.
[More from Mashable: WikiLeaks Partners With Anonymous, Releases Security Firm’s Emails]
Monsegur’s sealed admissions are expected to be submitted as evidence against the other members of the organization arrested Tuesday. Top-level officials told Fox News that those admissions directly resulted in the arrests made Tuesday morning.
The five arrested men include Ryan Ackroyd, or “Kayla;” Jake Davis, or “Topiary;” Darren Martyn, or “pwnsauce;” Donncha O’Cearrbhail, “palladium;” and Jeremy Hammond, or “Anarchaos.”
Four of the five men arrested were charged as members of a conspiracy in a New York federal court. Hammand, of Chicago, is also believed to be affiliated with Anonymous and will be charged separately from the others. He is considered the mastermind behind last December’s cyberattack on U.S.-based private security firm Stratfor. Anonymous took credit for taking approximately 5 million private emails from Stratfor and handing them to WikiLeaks, which is publishing them piecemeal.
LulzSec has targeted a wide variety of organizations, either for ideological reasons or just “for the lulz.” In other words, for the sake of amusement and thrill of hacking. It has gone after law enforcement agencies, ATT, Sony, a British newspaper and the U.S. Navy. The group claimed to have “retired” in late June of last year, although a LulzSec-organized hack against The Sun newspaper occurred a month later.
The LulzSec group is considered to be indirectly connected with Anonymous, another international group of hackers and “hacktivists.”
An Anonymous-affiliated Twitter account responded to the news of the arrests by suggesting Sabu betrayed his group and promising retaliation:
The way Sabu gang took control of Anonops.. anonops gonna retaliate. Also they (anonops) are NOW anonymous if the news is true.
— Anonymous Operations (@Anon_Central) March 6, 2012
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This story originally published on Mashable here.
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