US hacker-FBI informant walks free


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 28 May 2014

NEW YORK: The founder of an offshoot of the shadowy hacker group Anonymous, who directed hundreds of cyberattacks before turning FBI informant, walked free Tuesday after getting a symbolic seven-month sentence. 

Hector Xavier Monsegur, 30, better known by his screen name "Sabu," was first arrested in 2011 and had already served seven months in jail before being released on bail in December 2012. 

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