UK VPN and web proxy service provider Hide My Ass! (HMA) says that it helped identify the alleged member of the LulzSec hacker group who was arrested by the FBI last week. The company explained that it had complied with a court order to disclose the IP address that the suspect used to log into HMA.
HMA says that the issue first came to its attention through a LulzSec IRC chat log that was released on the web; in this chat log, users discussed various VPN services, including HMA, in early June. Among the chat members was a user who went by the online nickname of Topiary and who was arrested by the UK police at the end of July, as well as a person called “Recursion”; allegedly, the user behind this nickname is a 23-year-old man who has now been arrested by the FBI. HMA said that the chat conversation itself wasn’t illegal and didn’t warrant a response by the company, but that a court order to disclose the data was received later.
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