Washington Times:
U.S. and British authorities carried out a coordinated series of raids Thursday as part of a growing international hunt for the hackers behind several cyber-attacks in support of the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.
British police arrested five people in separate raids at their homes across the country, saying they were linked with the mysterious online collective that organized the attacks last year and calls itself “Anonymous.”
The FBI said in a statement it had “executed more than 40 search warrants” as part of “an ongoing investigation into recent coordinated cyber-attacks against major companies and organizations.” It added that there had not been any arrests so far in the United States.
A bureau spokeswoman told The Washington Times she could not give any more details about the searches because the warrants remained sealed.
Last year, as part of the same investigation, the FBI executed a search warrant at a computer server hosting firm in Dallas, which became public when court documents associated with it were briefly unsealed in error and posted online by the Smoking Gun website.
The five arrested in Britain — including three teens aged 15, 16 and 19, and two men aged 20 and 26 — were seized in early morning raids at homes across the country, according to a statement from New Scotland Yard.
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Those arrested could get up to 10 years in jail, if convicted of the charges. If they have any money they could also be liable for damages. This is further evidence that we are getting better at running down the source of cyber attacks.
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