Details Of FBI Surveillance In Lulzsec Takedown Emerge

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday March 7, 2012 @06:03AM from the just-because-you're-paranoid dept.

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."

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Re:Traitors by Oswald+McWeany · 2012-03-07 06:45 · Score: 5, Informative

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.

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