FBI searches homes of suspected Anonymous hacktivists in New York

In the early hours of this morning, the FBI executed search warrants at to gather evidence at the homes of alleged members of the Anonymous hacktivist group.

According to a Fox News report, two homes in Long Island, New York, and one in Brooklyn, were searched by FBI agents looking for evidence that computers at the addresses had been used in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a number of websites.

Computer equipment is said to have been removed from the home of Giordani Jordan in Baldwin, Long Island by FBI agents.

In recent months, a number of high profile websites (including those belonging to PayPal,…

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