FBI Continues Crackdown on Cybercrime With Two Arrests

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The FBI arrested two suspected members of hacker groups LulzSec and Anonymous Thursday.

Cody Kretsinger, a 23-year-old suspected member of hacking group LulzSec, was arrested in Phoenix for his alleged role in the cyberattacks on Sony Pictures Entertainment this June. Hackers stole information from 37,000 of the company’s user accounts and posted it on LulzSec’s website.

Members of the Los Angeles FBI field office told FoxNews.com they had also arrested an alleged member of Anonymous in San Francisco. They suspect the man, who is homeless, of attacks on Santa Cruz County government websites.

Search warrants were also being executed in New Jersey, Minnesota and Montana, according to FoxNews.com.

Anonymous and LulzSec have claimed participation in pretty much every high-profile hacking incident in recent memory, including those on Sony’s Playstation Network, the U.S. Senate and Fox News.

In July, the FBI made its intentions to crackdown on cybercrime clear when it arrested 16 suspected hackers in raids throughout the U.S.

“We want to send a message that chaos on the Internet is unacceptable, [even if] hackers can be believed to have social causes, it’s entirely unacceptable to break into websites and commit unlawful acts,†FBI Deptuy Assistant Director Steve Chabinsky told NPR at the time.

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