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Switzerland & Italian police arrest 15 suspected Anonymous members

Posted: 08 Jul 2011 10:59 AM PDT

Switzerland & Italian police arrest 15 suspected Anonymous members

Switzerland & Italian police claimed on Tuesday to have arrested some members of the Legion group Anonymous following a series of raids. The arrests were made by the Polizia postale e delle comunicazioni, or Polizia Postale, which is specifically concerned with computer security and other telecommunications abuses. Polizia director Antonio Apruzzese stated that the actions of Anonymous "created serious economic damages, having targeted a number of Italian businesses, including power companies Eni and Enel, multinational conglomerate Finmeccanica, media group Mediaset, and broadcaster RAI".

According to Report, Italian police arrested 15 suspected Anonymous members for attacks on Sony's servers. Five of the arrested were under 18 years of age, while none of those arrested were older than 28. A 26 year-old man and his computer equipment were seized by Swiss police.

"Anonymous denies these media reports (and) reiterates that this is impossible: Anonymous is not been dismantled. Anonymous has no leaders, no structure. All Anonymous members operate at the same level".

The group has been busy stepping up its hacking operation in a movement called "AntiSec." Hackers involved in the movement breach systems based on political motivations. In the past Anonymous has been suspected in breaches of several government sites including ones belonging to Turkey. The group was also initially suspected in April's downtime of the PlayStation Network. However, they denied any involvement.

Anonymous said "Our protest will continue louder than ever".

German Federal Police servers Hacked by NN-Crew

Posted: 08 Jul 2011 06:42 AM PDT

German Federal Police servers Hacked by NN-Crew

Hacking Group "NN-Crew" hacked into server used by Germany's Federal Police and stolen a large amount of data used to GPS-track suspects under surveillance. The hacked data published by NN-Crew included several usernames and passwords along with telephone numbers, license plate numbers, locations, and coordinates.

Hacked data is published at : Click Here

A spokesperson for the German Federal Police said that an "analysis conducted by our executive committee revealed that no investigation data used by the Federal Police (or by the Federal Criminal Police Office) was published. As far as we can tell at the moment, the data published came from a server used by customs officials, which apparently also contained information from the Federal Police on the use of the PATRAS tracking system for distribution among customs officials."

The spokesperson also said that the server of the PATRAS geo-data system has been temporarily switched off for security reasons and that all users have been informed.