The following is a Fox News report:
The FBI arrested two alleged members of the hacking collectives LulzSec and Anonymous on Thursday morning in San Francisco and Phoenix, FoxNews.com has learned.
Search warrants were also being executed in New Jersey, Minnesota and Montana, an FBI official told FoxNews.com.
One individual was described as part of the LulzSec group, the other to the group that calls itself Anonymous, the official said. The suspected hacker arrested in California is homeless and alleged to have been involved in the hacking of Santa Cruz County government websites.
The person arrested in Arizona is a student at a technical university and allegedly participated in the widely publicized hack against Sony several months ago, the official said.
Members of the Los Angeles FBI field office carried out the arrests. The two alleged hackers were charged in an indictment out of Los Angeles federal court.
LulzSec is a splinter group from the “hacktivist” collective Anonymous, a loose collection of cybersavvy activists inspired by WikiLeaks and its head Julian Assange to fight for Internet freedoms — along the way defacing websites, shutting down servers, and scrawling messages across screens web-wide. While Anonymous is largely a politically motivated organization, LulzSec’s attacks were largely done “for the lulz” — Internet slang meaning “for the fun of it.”
Both groups have been targeted by the FBI and international law enforcement agencies in recent months.
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