A former Anonymous member plans on helping the authorities capture the group

Dec 20, 2011 17:21 GMT  ·  By

The members of Anonymous revealed the identity of a former member that began collaborating with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) in their investigations against the group.

In a video statement published on Youtube on November 8, Anonymous accused Arturas T. Rosenbacher, also known as AnonOpsWorld, of treason. They also accuse him of wanting to become famous by relying on the group’s name to sabotage the Occupy Chicago movement and “scamming innocent people out of money.”

“Arturas wants attention, he wants to be famous. Let us make him famous. Let us all contact each and every Occupy movement and make sure the people know about the traitor T. No Occupy is safe with a traitor in the midst,” the hackers said at the time.

After releasing tons of information on the individual, Anonymous now appointed another former member as being a snitch. They obtained an email Tony Berman, aka root, sent to Assistant US Attorney Criminal Division, Wesley Hsu, in which he offered his services to help apprehend the group in return for “immunity from prosecution.”

He also claims that he has some valuable information for the prosecution against Jacob Appelbaum, one of the main members of the TOR project, on the fact that he committed wire fraud to help fund Wikileaks.

“I will be flying from Tokyo to Los Angeles for Christmas celebration. I am willing to schedule sometime to meet in your Los Angeles office in January 2012. I am willing to collaborate with all investigations, provided that I am granted Immunity From Prosecution related to my involvement of Anonymous from October 2011 to November 2011,” root said in the leaked email.

Finally, he provides the online monikers and the leadership structure of Anonymous. The list contains names such as Power2All, evilworks, Isis aka Effexor, daboogieman, Poke, and the infamous Sabu.

In another leaked email, he contacts a friend and confesses the fact that he’s about to help the DoJ in their investigations against hacktivists in return for his freedom.