Ohio man charged with Anonymous-sponsored attacks on police websites

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By Dan Goodin
ars technica
April 16, 2012

An Ohio man has been charged with hacking into two websites controlled 
by law enforcement groups after he posted Twitter messages boasting of 
the intrusions, which were carried out under the banner of "CabinCr3w," 
an offshoot of the Anonymous hacking collective.

John Anthony Borell III of Toledo, Ohio, was charged with two counts of 
computer intrusion, according to an indictment unsealed Monday in 
Federal Court in Utah. According to a separate criminal complaint that 
was also unsealed Monday, he exposed the names and private details of 
almost 500 police officers after using an automated script to carry out 
SQL injection attacks on websites belonging to the Utah Chiefs of Police 
and the Salt Lake City Police Department.

According to an Associated Press report, Borell appeared in federal 
court in Salt Lake City on Monday and pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors 
and a public defender handling the case weren't immediately available to 
comment, and court documents available at the time of this writing did 
not mention the hearing.

Borell is at least the second member of CabinCr3w to be criminally 
charged for taking part in "Operation Pig Roast," a coordinated hacking 
campaign that targeted police websites. 30-year-old Higinio O. Ochoa III 
was charged with gaining unauthorized access to four law-enforcement 
group websites, according to recently unsealed documents filed in 
federal court in Austin, Texas. Federal investigators tracked him down 
in part thanks to his posting of an image showing a scantily clad woman 
holding a sign saying the hack was carried out by W0rmer of CabinCr3w. 
Metadata in the image file, combined with other digital evidence he 
allegedly left, ultimately allowed prosecutors to tie W0rmer to Ochoa.

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