Anonymous affiliate indicted for threats, stolen credit cards

December 08, 2012

A federal grand jury in Texas has indicted Barrett Brown, a putative spokesman for the hacker collective known as Anonymous and co-author of a book-in-progress about the group, in connection with a massive data breach of Stratfor Global Intelligence, a geopolitical risk analysis organization. Brown is in federal prison based on another indictment returned against him on October 3. In that case he's charged with making a threat on the Internet, conspiring to make public restricted personal information of a federal employee, and retaliation against a federal law enforcement officer. Barrett Brown Brown was arrested after posting a three-part video to YouTube that ran more than 43 minutes in which he, among other things, threatened to "shoot... and kill" any armed government officials who sought to arrest him, "especially the FBI." One of the crimes Brown is accused of in the indictment is transferring a hyperlink from an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel apparently occupied by Anonymous to a channel controlled by Brown. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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