In a nationwide operation, the FBI Tuesday arrested more than a dozen suspected members of the “Anonymous” hacking collective. Sixteen people were arrested across 10 states and the District of Columbia, accused of cyber attacks including one on PayPal as payback for the company's having cut ties with WikiLeaks. Police in the U.K. and the Netherlands also reportedly carried out arrests, all of which followed raids on six locations in New York. Anonymous and affiliated group LulzSec have taken credit for past attacks on the websites of government agencies and corporations including: Sony, AT&T, Visa, MasterCard and the CIA. On Monday, Anonymous claimed credit for a denial-of-service attack on Rupert Murdoch’s The Times newspaper in the UK, while LulzSec boasted on its Twitter page after tampering with The Sun tabloid's site.
