NEW YORK (AP) ? He’s known as a quiet family man at the large public housing project in New York City where he lives. But federal prosecutors say Hector Xavier Monsegur is an Internet saboteur known as Sabu.
Authorities say he hacked into government websites in Tunisia, Yemen and Algeria and helped coordinate attacks on credit card companies after they refused to accept donations to Wikileaks.
They say Monsegur added another layer to the subterfuge by informing on his accomplices after he was caught by the FBI last spring.
His cooperation led to charges filed Tuesday against five people in the United States, Scotland, Ireland and England, including one other American, Jeremy Hammond, a 27-year-old from Chicago.
