Hector Xavier Monsegur is an American computer hacker and co-founder of the hacking group LulzSec. Facing a sentence of 124 years in prison, he became an informant for the FBI. He provided the FBI with details enabling the arrest of five other hackers associated with the groups Anonymous, Lulzsec and Antisec.
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Hector Xavier Monsegur is an American computer hacker and co-founder of the hacking group LulzSec. Facing a sentence of 124 years in prison, he became an informant for the FBI. He provided the FBI with details enabling the arrest of five other hackers associated with the groups Anonymous, Lulzsec and Antisec. Information Monsegur provided also resulted in the arrest in two UK hackers: James Jeffery and Ryan Cleary. Monse Gur was convicted of 12 criminal charges, including multiple counts of conspiracy to engage in computer hacking, computer hacking in furtherance of fraud, conspiracy to commit access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.
In late May 2014, prosecutors revealed that he had prevented 300 cyber attacks in the three years since 2011, including planned attacks on NASA, the U.S. military and media companies. At the time of his arrest, he was the FBI’s number one cyber-criminal target in the world, among the number of his major co-conspirators.
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