Italian Police Arrest 15 Linked to Anonymous Hackers

In response, Anonymous calls for the 'AntiSec' campaign to go after the Italian government 'stronger than ever.'

Fifteen people alleged to be members of the hacking group Anonymous have been arrested in Italy after carrying out denial of service attacks against numerous Italian government and broadcaster websites. The crackdown resulted in Anonymous calling to “let [the Italian government] have it, stronger than ever.” In the past couple of weeks, Anonymous has ratcheted up its “Anti-Security” hacking campaign, posting the databases taken from 20 Italian universities online, targeting Turkish government websites, and hounding the Arizona Department of Public Safety because of that state's anti-immigration policies. AntiSec was started by another hacking group, LulzSec, which disbanded after a few glorious months of breaching databases and defacing websites around the web.