Police Detain 3 Suspects in Sony Hacker Attack
According to multiple news sources such as the New York Times and CNN, police said today they have arrested three men suspected of being leaders of Anonymous, the group accused of attacking Sony's PlayStation network and subsequently forcing SOE to shut down its services from May 2-14.
The first suspect, a 31-year-old Spaniard, was detained in the Spanish city of Almería sometime after May 18. According to the New York Times, "He had a computer server in his apartment in the northern Spanish port city of Gijón, where the group is believed to have attacked the Web sites of the Sony PlayStation online gaming store."
The two other suspects, both in their early 30s, were arrested in Barcelona and Alicante following attacks against the websites of the Spanish Parliament, the UGT trade union and the Catalan regional police.
According to CNN, "The police did not immediately provide further details about the suspects, nor did they specify to what extent the Spanish branch of Anonymous might have participated in the recent attacks on Sony's PlayStation."
