An alleged leader of LulzSec is said to have helped the FBI with the investigation.

According to a Foxnews report the 28-year old Hector Xavier Monsegur had been working as an informant after he was secretly arrested last year.

“They caught him and he was secretly arrested and now works for the FBI,” Foxnews heard from a source.

Monsegur, better known as “Sabu” online previously worked for the LimeWire but lost his job when the popular file-sharing application was shutdown by the RIAA.

It would be no surprise if the connection between “Sabu” and LimeWire will be quoted by copyright groups to show that there’s a link between file-sharing and organized crime.

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The torrent “50 Days of Lulz” (cache) was LulzSec’s final release which included a wide variety of data leaks including “AT&T internal data.rar.”

In the release notes LulzSec warned that this particular file contained some malware, as AT&T apparently uses a pirated copy of WinRar.

“In ‘AT&T internal data.rar’, do not open “BootableUSB/Program Files/WinRar/WinRar v3.71.exe”, as it is malware (due to AT&T using a pirated copy of WinRar),” LulzSec wrote.

But it appears that not all Pirate Bay moderators were aware of this.

After several notifications that the LulzSec release contained a ‘suspicious’ file one moderator therefore decided to delete the .torrent.

This action resulted in quite a bit of discussion among Pirate Bay’s moderators and helpers, TorrentFreak was informed. However, it didn’t take long before “Anonymous” came to the rescue and uploaded a clean version.

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At least, that was the plan.

It now appears that the recent accomplishments of LulzSec and Anonymous have changed the minds of Telstra’s top executives.

With the threat of becoming the prime target of these Internet vigilantes in the back of their minds, the Government blocklist is no longer that appealing.

The Australian reports:

“It is understood Telstra was last night still grappling with the decision as to whether to commit to the voluntary filter because of fears of reprisals from the internet vigilantes behind a spate of recent cyber attacks.”

“It is understood the unstructured collective of hackers that identifies itself as Lulz Security, which has an agenda to wreak havoc on corporate and government cyber assets, claiming this is to expose security flaws, is one of Telstra main concerns.”

“The other main concern is a group that identifies itself as Anonymous, another unstructured hacker collective that claims to be opposed to any form of internet censorship, and has carried out attacks on Australian government websites because of Canberra’s support for an internet filter on child pornography.”

Aside from LulzSec and Anonymous many other parties including the Aussie Pirate Party have criticized the Internet filter.

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