Spanish Authorities Arrest Three for Sony Playstation Network Hack, Get Hacked

By Liam Eagle, June 13, 2011

An image of the Policia.es site, now restored after going down Sunday

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to several reports appearing in the Wired Threat Level blog over the last few days, Spanish police were attacked by hacker group Anonymous Sunday, following the arrest of three people believed to be involved with the group, and associated with the recent attacks on Sony’s Playstation Network, which compromised user data for more than 77 million accounts.

A Friday post on Threat Level reported that Spanish authorities had announced the arrest of three members of Anonymous in connection with attacks on the Playstation Network, as well as against other sites, including Visa, PayPal and other service providers that elected not to provide services to whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks in late 2010.

While Spanish police originally reported that the arrests had been in relation to the major Playstation Network hack in April, several reports have since claimed that the arrests were in relation to attacks on several other Sony properties.

At the time of the attacks, and since, many published stories have attributed the attacks to hacker group LulzSec. The group may be associated with Anonymous, but it’s difficult to say, given the general reluctance of hackers to divulge information about their identities.

Police did not reveal the identities of the three individuals arrested, but said they had carried out the attacks from a server based in the home of one of the suspects in northern Spain.

Anonymous, which has previously rejected characterization as a group or organization with any centralized leadership or direction, has publicly claimed credit for several of the WikiLeaks-related hacks, but claims it was framed by unrelated for the attacks on Sony, which forced the company to shut down the online network serving its Playstation 3 video game systems for more than a month.

On Monday, Threat Level reported that the website for Spain’s federal police was attacked by Anonymous on Sunday, and taken offline for approximately an hour.

In a blog post, Anonymous took credit for the attack, calling it a direct response to Friday’s arrests.

Spanish police are reportedly investigating the attack on their website.

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