14 arrested in connection with Anonymous attacks on PayPal

U.S. prosecutors arrested and charged 14 people with involvement in the PayPal attack, which occurred last December as retribution for dropping WikiLeaks as a client. The attack was allegedly coordinated by the hacking group Anonymous.

Anonymous is a group of hackers sympathetic to WikiLeaks. It has claimed responsibility for attacks against corporate and government Web sites worldwide. The 14 were arrested in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, D.C., Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico and Ohio, and they ranged in age from 20 to 42.

"The fact that they have been tracked back and that some of them have been arrested is a significant development," said Mark Rasch, a former chief of the Justice Department's cyber crimes unit and now director of Cybersecurity and Privacy Consulting for the government technology services firm CSC.

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