Last Updated on May 24, 2015

Hacktivists and Information Security Professionals could not believe their eyes while reading the breaking news published by Fox News according to which the infamous Sabu, the alleged leader of the LulzSec collective, has been secretly working for the government for months and played a crucial role for the raids which today led to the arrests of three members of the infamous hacking collective with two more charged for conspiracy.

You will probably remember that the hacking collective which, in its “50 days of Lulz” become the nightmare for System Administrators and Law Enforcement Agencies all over the Globe, suddenly decided to give up, on June the 25th, in a completely unexpected way, leaving their supporters and followers completely surprised, but also leaving the heritage of a name which has become a synonym for hacktivism (also because of their pact with the Anonymous, with whom they are often associated, in the name of the #Antisec movement).

Even after the group left the scene, Sabu has continued to constantly tweet and comment the events through his “official” Twitter account @anonymouSabu, probably a fake or a diversionary tactic, since it looks like that Sabu had already been arrested by the FBI since June, the 7th, more than a couple of weeks before the breakdown of the group,

At that time, the hacking group was hunted by Law Enforcement Agencies and several Grayhats as well (among all @th3j35ter, the A-Team and Web Ninjas whose blog, lulzsecexposed.blogspot.com, unfortunately is no longer available).

Curiously, it looks like that Sabu had already been “doxed” since then. At that time many claimed to have revealed the identity of the members: there was no day without a new pastebin promising to expose new information. But if you have a look at them, they all have only one thing in common, and it is just the identity of Xavier Monsegur (or Montsegur), also known as Sabu. The truth was very close and before everybody eyes: on pastebin.

June, 28th 2011: http://pastebin.com/qmP7R49Y

The real identity of the other members is not still completely known, but for sure it is not a coincidence that no one of the pastebins was able to guess anyone else except Sabu, who hence was the first to be arrested, well before the rest of the group.