(FOXNews.com) – The FBI executed search warrants at the New York homes of three suspected members of notorious hacking group “Anonymous” early Tuesday, FOXNews.com reported, citing sources.
More than 10 FBI agents arrived at the Baldwin, N.Y., home of Giordani Jordan with a search warrant for computers and computer-related accessories.
The targets of the FBI searches were all in their late teens to early 20s.
Jordan’s system was identified as allegedly being used in a coordinated distributed denial of service attack against several companies, a law enforcement official told FOXNews.com.
Tuesday’s search warrants were part of an ongoing investigation into Anonymous and its alleged retaliatory attacks.
The Anonymous group is a loose collection of cyber savvy activists inspired by WikiLeaks and its flamboyant head Julian Assange to fight for internet freedom — along the way defacing websites, shutting down servers and scrawling messages across screens web-wide.
The Anonymous group recently turned its efforts to the Arizona police department, posting personal information of law officers and hacking and defacing websites in response to the state’s controversial SB1070 immigration law, the group claimed.
While Anonymous is largely a politically motivated organization, splinter group LulzSec — which dominated headlines in the spring for a similar streak of cyber attacks — was largely in it for the thrills.
The two groups were responsible for a broad spate of digital break-ins targeting governments and large corporations, including Japanese technology giant Sony, the US Senate, telecommunications giant AT&T, FOX.com and other government and private entities.
Source: FOXNews.com