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| Anonymous 'intercept FBI and Scotland Yard phone call' | |
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| Hacking network Anonymous has released a recording of a conference call between the FBI and UK police in which they discuss efforts against hacking. | |
| The conversation covers the tracking of Anonymous and other splinter groups, dates of planned arrests and details of evidence held by police. | |
| Anonymous also published an email, apparently from the FBI, giving the email addresses of call participants. | |
| The FBI confirmed the leak and said it was hunting those responsible. | |
| It said the information "was intended for law enforcement officers only and was illegally obtained," the Associated Press news agency reports. | |
| British police at Scotland Yard said they were working on a statement. | |
| According to the alleged email, the 17-minute phone call took place on 17 January. It was unclear how Anonymous had managed to obtain the recording. | |
| The email was sent to law enforcement officials in the US, UK, Sweden, Ireland and other countries, inviting them to "discuss the on-going investigations related to Anonymous, Lulzsec, Antisec, and other associated splinter groups". | |
| In the call, British and American voices said to be police and FBI agents discuss the names of some of the people they were tracking and plans for legal action. | |
| Usernames are included but some of the real names of people being investigated appear to have been bleeped out. | |
| Among those discussed are two British men, Ryan Cleary and Jake Davis, who are wanted in the US for their alleged connections to Anonymous. | |
| One of the British voices on the recording also says UK police have made mistakes in previous investigations. | |
| A comment on one of the Twitter accounts linked to Anonymous, AnonymousIRC, said: "The FBI might be curious how we're able to continuously read their internal comms for some time now." | |
| Anonymous is a loose collective of hackers, anarchists and pranksters who have targeted a range of governments, companies, law enforcement agencies and individuals in recent years. |