Three members of the infamous Anonymous "hacktivist" group have been arrested in Spain on charges of being involved in the recent devastating attack on the PlayStation Network, as well as for other unrelated cyber-attacks. 

As Reuters reports, three unnamed suspects were arrested in three separate Spanish cities. All were described as being in their 30s. According to the report, Spanish police claim those arrested "were guilty of coordinated computer hacking attacks from a server set up in a house in Gijon in the north of Spain." 

There's little else in the way of concrete details currently available, but we will update this story as further information develops. 

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/117/1175308p1.html

seems like sony is playing pokemon...gotta catch em all

Dammit! I was just about to post this story lol.

but breaking into old peoples basement to drag out their sons for the first time in years!? 0_o that's just mean sony!

You know, imagining life without hackers isn't that bad considering all those things they've done for free but I think the hackers targeting sony should've just targeted Sony alone but involving customers? Breaching PSN wasn't really a nice idea after thinking about it. I think with what they did(those hackers not being beneficial to just about anyone), it just made them as vulnerable as Sony or other companies. The law was protecting them in the first place allowing them to do things but I think with the PSN breach, I think people or even governments considers some of the hackers as threats now.

LOL!!!

this is so wrong, what about freedom, freedom to hack, to do what ever you want, I hope the community will get together to bail them out, maybe they can hack the jail they will be in or better, egg it

What a moronic statement.  What about everyone else's freedom to be able to use their identity and credit card details electonically without being held at ransom by some dick who can use them for identity fraud or make a profit by selling them to someone else for identity fraud. 

Anonymous was responsible for the denial of service attacks. Phantom was responsible for the PSN/SOE breach that took place. The groups are not connected. Further more what probably brought the Spanish government down on these guys were the two attacks they perpetrated on Spanish banks. Which begs a real question for everyone. Why is it that tech savvy Japan cannot do a job equal to, or better then Spain.

Anyway Anonymous is last years news.

What Freedom to hack? Freedom to spoil the fun for everyone? Freedom to produce millions of damage to a company? I seriously hope your comment was meant to be a joke, or else it would be pretty sad.