Updated 12:15 am ET, Tuesday, March 6
Hector Xavier Monsegur, an unemployed 28-year-old father of two who lives in public housing in New York, is allegedly the man behind the screenname “Sabu,” leader of the hacker group LulzSec and has been working with FBI agents to go after other members of the organization, Fox News first reported Tuesday.The Justice Department at noon on Tuesday unsealed an indictment filed in the Southern District of New York charging that Mosegur “willfully and knowingly caused the transmission of a program, information, code and command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally caused damage without authorization to a protected computer,” causing “at least $5,000 in aggregate loss,” in the August 2011 cyber attacks on security firm HBGary Federal, a government contractor. The indictment was originally filed in California in August 2011.
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