The hack group Lulz Securityendedits 50 - day sovereignty of threat this weekend , but law enforcement ’s hunt club for its memberswill go on . Last week , FBI agent raided an Iowa woman ’s home because of her connections to the grouping .
At about 11 am last Thursday , 29 - yr - previous Laurelai Bailey listen a knock at her Davenport , Iowa home . She found around eight FBI agents swarming at her doorstep , search warrant in hand . But the agents courteously “ tell me they were n’t there to arrest me , ” Bailey tells us in an interview .
rather , they had some question about hackers Bailey had been hanging out with online . They told Bailey they were investigating a Februaryattackagainst the security business firm HBGary by an elite group of hackers associated with the hacktivist collective Anonymous . Those hackers would later on break by from Anonymous to shape Lulz Security , who lash out the FBI , PBS , and the CIA in a well - publicized spree before call it resign this weekend amid increase pressure and thearrestof a purported member in England .
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Bailey ’s conversation with the feds lasted about five hr , during which she tell apart them everything she knew . But Bailey sound out she love nothing that anyone could n’t find out themselves , using leak claver logs and Google . The feds also asked if she could pass through the chemical group .
“ They wanted to know if I could get close to them , ” Bailey say . “ I tell them these people hate me … it would n’t do any good . ” Bailey says Lulz Security hacker hold a score against her for leak logs from the orphic confab room in which they planned the HBGary hack — which she says she did in retaliation for them harassing some of her friend . ( We later publish an articlebasedon the logs . ) When the interview was over , the broker drag off a couple of her hard drives , her tv camera and other reckoner equipment .
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According to Bailey , the agents who question her were specifically interested in a member of Lulz Security who goes by the handgrip “ Kayla . ” “ Anytime I mentioned her , they seemed peculiarly interested , ” Bailey says .
Little is know for certain about Kayla : She was instrumental in the HBGary attack and was a found member of Lulz Security . She’sclaimedto be a 16 - class - sure-enough lady friend , though rumors hang on that she ’s actually a 20 - something bozo from New Jersey . Others suppose Kayla is Formosan , or actually a sockpuppet ensure by many different mass . Her propose Twitteraccountis made up of infuriatingly opaque status updates about kick the bucket partying and perish on vacation . The most late : “ right gon na go get rdy bye twitter :-) ” .
Bailey says Kayla is “ favorable ” but mystifying , limiting their exchanges mostly to public tweet .
But Bailey insists she was never a phallus of LulzSec , nor has she ever engaged in illegal hacking . In the schmoose logs she leaked , she is seen chatting freely with the hackers as the HBGary hackunfolded , offering advice , kibitz — even have suggestions for a logo . But she says she became close to the hackers through her involvement with Crowdleaks , a Wikileaks - focused news website . She claim she was in the room during the HBGary hack simply acting as a reporter for Crowdleaks .
Although she ’s not distressed about get in trouble with the constabulary , the raid has already screw up her life in another way . After she chatted with a booster online about the raid last week , the record of their schmoose was leaked in adocumentwhich portrayed her as a member of LulzSec “ snitch ” on her fellow hackers . The papers included her genuine name and contact information , and the association with Lulz Security induce her to lose her Book of Job in technical school bread and butter .
“ They send away me … because I was apparently make the company look risky , ” Bailey said .
The maraud of what appear to be an peanut digit in the Lulz Security universe offers a coup d’oeil into how the authorization are going about get the notorious hacker . It ’s not just complicated computer forensics , which will in all likelihood lead to dead end if the hackers were smart enough to cover their track . Everyone LulzSec cyber-terrorist have occur into contact with over their integral hacking careers will be sweep up in the investigation . Though Bailey say she had no smoke gun to offer the feds , someone might .
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