Sabu comes forward and answers a lot of questions shedding light on certain matters

Oct 10, 2011 11:50 GMT  ·  By

Sabu, one of the first leaders of LulzSec, a faction of the infamous Anonymous hacker gang, gave an interview on Reddit, revealing a lot if interesting things about his true identity and his former colleagues.

According to The Guardian, he plans on revealing at a certain point in time, information gathered from the hacked servers of the Sun which are a result of an attack that targeted News International websites.

Sabu states that his group, which is held responsible for hacking organizations such as Sony, Fox and PBS, is formed of people who don't know much about each other, but this seems to be a good thing as his main fear is that one of his friends will bring him down.

He looks to be on the run and he is giving interviews because LulzSec members agreed to talk to the media only after they would meet the end. As Sabu feels the end is near, he decided to start threads named “Ask me anything” where he answers all sorts of questions.

One of his posts reveal that the hacking operations were mostly made to expose ”the sad state of security across the media, social, government online environments."

It turns out that the one who was once among the leaders of the group is married and for now he doesn't have time for illegal operations as he is “loving life a lot this year.”

The same source reveals that he also gave a few personal details from which it turned out that he's probably a 30-year-old Puerto Rican who became a hacker in 2000. He is married and he studied social sciences and English, the cybercriminal skills being learned from the street. He knows five languages, three of which fluently, which means that he is a well educated man.

To get away with his operations he used prepaid phones and BlackBerry devices, in most cases relying on Twitter to send his messages.

"Believe it or not, Twitter has not been sleeping in bed with LEAs [law enforcement agencies]. In fact it's a process [for LEAs] to get account info," he said.

It remains to be seen what information will surface after he starts publishing all the data he claims to possess, but because in some cases he hasn't found a smoking gun yet, nothing will be made public for the time being.