Hector Xavier Monsegur
Hector Xavier Monsegur (born October 13, 1983 ), also known under the pseudonym Sabu , is an American cracker and co-founder of the hacker group LulzSec . He became an informant for the FBI after his arrest and worked with the police for over ten months to identify other hackers from LulzSec and similar groups. LulzSec interfered in the affairs of organizations such as News Corporation , Stratfor , British and American law enforcement agencies and the Irish Fine Gael party .
In 2011, Sigurdur Thordarson spied on Sabu without the latter knowing that they both worked for the FBI.
The Economist newspaper named Sabu one of the six core members of LulzSec and their most experienced hacker.
Monsegur was sentenced to a maximum of 317 months (over 26 years) in prison for his cooperation.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hacker, Informant and Party Boy of the Projects . In: The New York Times , March 8, 2012.
- ↑ "LulzSec Leader Betrays All of Anonymous" .
- ↑ Parmy Olson: We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency . Little, Brown, 2012, ISBN 978-0-316-21354-7 , p. 248.
- ↑ 'Lulzsec hackers' arrested in international swoop - BBC News, March 6, 2012
- ^ "LulzSec leader Sabu was working for us, says FBI" .
- ↑ http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/28/heres-what-it-looks-like-when-two-hacker-fbi-informants-try-to-inform-on-each -other /
- ^ "Cybercrime: Black hats, gray hairs" .
- ↑ Lulzsec hacker Sabu: reduced prison sentence due to FBI cooperation - golem.de. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
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| SURNAME | Monsegur, Hector Xavier |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sabu (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cracker and co-founder of the LulzSec hacker group |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1983 |