EXCLUSIVE: FBI Raids Homes of Suspected Anonymous Hackers
By Ja Published July 19, 2011

|July 19, 2011: FBI agents execute a search warrant at the Long Island, NY,
home of a suspected member of notorious hacking group Anonymous.

The FBI is executing search warrants at two Long Island, NY, homes and one
Brooklyn, NY, home of three suspected members of notorious hacking group
Anonymous early Tuesday morning, FoxNews.com has learned.

More than 10 FBI agents arrived at the Baldwin NY home of Giordani Jordan
with a search warrant for computers and computer-related accessories.

His 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 are part of an ongoing investigation into
Anonymous and its alleged retaliatory attacks. The Anonymous group is a
loose collection of cybersavvy 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 vigilante group has recently turned its efforts to the Arizona
police department, posting personal information of law officers and hacking
and defacing websites in response the group claims to the state's
controversial SB1070 immigration law.

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 metropolitan police in London arrested the first alleged member of the
LulzSec group on June 20, a 19-year-old teen named Ryan Cleary. Subsequent
sweeps through Italy and Switzerland in early July led to the arrests of 15
more people -- all between the ages of 15 and 28 years old.

The two groups are responsible for a broad spate of digital break-ins
targeting governments and large corporations, including Japanese technology
giant Sony, the U.S. Senate, telecommunications giant AT&T, Fox.com, British
paper The Sun, and other government and private entities.



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