Three Arrested For Sony/Egypt Hacks

jimmij0770 writes "Three people accused of being behind cyberattacks on the Sony PlayStation store, the Egyptian government and other targets have been arrested in Spain. Quoting: 'Spanish National Police announced the arrests Friday in a statement that alleged the three in custody are leaders of the Spanish section of Anonymous, a loose-knit international activist group that has claimed attacks on companies such as Visa and MasterCard and on government websites. At least one spokesperson for the group had denied responsibility for the attacks on Sony through its AnonOps blog. ... The statement said police began their investigation in October 2010 following a complaint of a denial of service attack on Spain's Ministry of Culture. They analyzed more than two million lines of chat logs and web pages used by the hackers in order to find the three people who were arrested.'"

organizational lol

[Anonymous Coward]

>>'Spanish National Police announced the arrests Friday in a statement that alleged the three in custody are leaders of the Spanish section of Anonymous...' >>'...the three in custody are leaders of the Spanish section of Anonymous...' >>'...leaders of the Spanish section of Anonymous...' lol. freaking morons. So long as they can make "Anonymous" out to be an "organization," they can "fight" it. wonderful how far violence gets people toward solving problems.

Idiots

[Anonymous Coward]

I wish the media would hurry up and realize how stupid they sound saying "leaders of anonymous."

Re:Idiots

[Anonymous Coward]

What's stupid is continuing to pretend "Anonymous" is really just a few unconnected anonymous individuals working independently.

You're EDITORS so EDIT!

[Wannabe Code Monkey]

Three people accused of being behind cyberattacks on the Sony PlayStation store, the Egyptian government and other targets have been arrested in Spain.

Really? Three people, along with the Egyptian government and other targets have been arrested in Spain? What was the Egyptian government doing in Spain? Was is on a vacation? That must have made quite the arrest.

Hint, this would have been much clearer:

Three people have been arrested in Spain for cyberattacks targeting the Sony PlayStation store, the Egyptian government, and others.

Huh..

[laxguy]

Why is it that no one is discussing the article, or the implications of the arrests.. everyone is commenting on how you can't name the leader of Anonymous..

Just because you think you know what Anonymous is, doesn't mean that everyone else does.. it's easier to say there is a "leader" than to explain what it really is..not to mention that fact that they are doing this to themselves. When they start releasing statements and using Twitter and shit, someone is in charge of those things, hence the "leader" tag.

Lets try talking about the article instead of pretending we're cool enough to know how Anonymous works.