NEW YORK: One of the world’s most-wanted hackers secretly became an FBI informant last year, providing evidence that led to charges against five other suspected leaders of the Anonymous international hacking group.
In a major blow to Anonymous, which has attacked the websites of government agencies and companies around the world, US authorities revealed that a leading hacker “Sabu” was Hector Xavier Monsegur and that he was arrested at his small apartment in a Manhattan housing complex last June.
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