Interpol has to say that 25 alleged members of the loosely-fixed activistenclub Anonymous arrested. The suspects were in various European countries and in South America picked up. So far as known, there are no Dutch people were arrested.
In a statement let the international tracing service to know that the arrests were carried out in Spain, Argentina, Chile and Colombia. The suspects are between 17 and 40 years old and are suspected to be a targeted cyber-attacks to have performed on a variety of websites, including those of the Colombian defence and an electric utility in Chile.
In the co-ordinated action, for which the survey in mid-February began, a total of forty residential properties in fifteen cities, and searched, where 250 it products and mobile phones have been seized. Also, there are two by the hackers used servers in Bulgaria and the Czech republic, blocked.
Despite the large scale of international action, the enforcement agencies have not yet conclusively demonstrate that the 25 suspects actually were involved in Anonymous. “We have not yet been able to determine that they are mutually supportive in a special way to negotiate”, says a spokesman.
In Europe, four of the 25 suspects arrested, all in Spain. Among them a prominent member of the Spanish and Latin-American branch of Anonymous, which is known as “Thunder” and “Pacotron’.
Anonymous seems in the meantime of have to be heard by a ddos attack on the website of Interpol to carry out. The site is currently unreachable.