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Three men arrested over Sony DDoS attack
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 13 June 2011
Spanish police have arrested three suspected members of the Anonymous group over allegations they were involved in the cyber-attacks on Sony’s PlayStation Network.
As previously reported, Sony’s online gaming network was offline for sometime after someone hacked into the service’s user data files while the Anonymous group were busy staging one of their Distributed Denial Of Service attacks, presumably over Sony’s involvement in various copyright lawsuits. Anonymous distanced themselves from the actual hack, which included the accessing of passwords and credit card information, but admitted it had instigated the DDoS attack. Similar attacks on various Sony owned websites around the world have since followed.
Spanish authorities said the three ‘hacktivists’ were suspected of being involved in online activity designed to bring down the web operations of Sony plus two Spanish banks and an Italian energy group. Anonymous usually target companies who are seen to be overly protective of intellectual property rights or who are infringing freedom of speech in some way. Predictably, websites linked to the Spanish authorities were named as new targets on Friday.
