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Details Of FBI Surveillance In Lulzsec Takedown Emerge
uigrad_2000 writes "Yesterday, we learned that one of the top members of LulzSec (Sabu) had been an FBI informant for almost 6 months, and that this confidant of the LulzSec leader 'anarchaos' had given the feds what they needed to take him down. More details have come out now, completing a picture of how the sting took place from start to finish. It turns out that even the server space given from Sabu to anarchaos storing the details of 30,000 credit cards (from the Stratfor hack) had been funded by the FBI."
The FBI can bring a lot of pressure to bear and were highly motivated to solve this case. I wouldn't be surprised if his children were obliquely threatened with some sort of negative consequence should he not cooperate.
That was indeed the case. The threat to his children was not seeing their father when in prison. That's why he agreed to cooperate. [src]
The lesson for us to learn --- never have kids.
NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
According to another article at the bottom- he made a couple of mistakes- one- he once logged into a chat directly without anonymising his IP. Two- he registerd a domain using his real name- and quickly changed it after noticing what he had done.
He was doxed by members of his own team- but looks like the FBI would have caught him anyway.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
You do realize that the reason Lulzsec stole cc numbers was because the numbers let them use other people's credit instead of their own? What, did you think they were doing it because it was kewl and rebellious? I didn't realize that I had to spell it out for you that when you max out other people's credit cards it can damage their credit ratings in ways that take decades to fix, even if a bank or online retailer later admits to the breach that let the cc#'s out.
Are you really defending Lulzsec here?