(2012-03-07) Anonymous Lulzsec Hacker Turned Fbi Informant

CW-1 was "Sabu," a top Anonymous/Lulz Sec Cracker who was in real life an unemployed 28-year old living in New York City public housing. His sixth-floor apartment had been visited by the FBI in June 2011, and Sabu had been arrested and "turned." For months, he had been an FBI Informant, watched 24 hours a day by an agent and using a government issued laptop that logged everything he did.

Hector Xavier Monsegur, a.k.a. Sabu, was outed Tuesday as a Puerto-Rican American resident of New York who pleaded guilty in August to an indictment on charges of computer crimes against targets ranging from Visa and Master Card to the security firm H B Gary and Sony that carried a maximum sentence of up to 124 years and six months in prison. According to a report by Fox News, the hacker chose to become a government informant rather than be separated from his two young sons.