So much for our post earlier this week about how we are dealing with an anonymous no pun intended enemy and how we may never capture the hackers responsible for the most recent high-profile data breaches.  It seems that law enforcement (kudos to them) can find and capture the bad guys.  Just today in Spain, it was announced that Spanish police had arrested three suspected computer hackers in connection with recent attacks on Sony, as well as other corporate and government web sites around the world.

So it seems that they have capture three members of the hacker organization Anonymous. Heres an excerpt from the NY Times on this bust:

One of the “hacktivist” detainees, a 31-year-old man, was arrested in the southern city of Almería sometime after May 18, the police said. He had a computer server in his apartment in the northern port city of Gijón, from which the group attacked the Web sites of the Sony PlayStation online gaming store.

The same computer was also employed in coordinated cyber-attacks against two Spanish banks, BBVA and Bankia, the Italian energy company Enel, as well as government sites in Spain, Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Iran, Chile, Colombia and New Zealand, the police said.

The police opened their investigation last October, after hackers overwhelmed the Spanish Ministry of Culture’s Web site to protest Spanish legislation increasing punishments for illegal downloads.

Be carefulAnonymous could amp up these attacks on Spanish government and business web sites.  Were just sayin.

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