Just prior to the Arizona hack, one of Lulzsec's founders, Hector Monsegur, Sabu, had been arrested.
The FBI unmasked Sabu when they arrested Hector Xavier Monsegur on June 7, 2011.
Federal officials declined to comment on whether Sabu assisted in the investigation of Keys.
Online Tuesday, Sabu became the target of vitriolic criticism from sympathizers of Anonymous.
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It intends to fight on two fronts by introducing its lowest-priced mass-market hot pot brand, 12 Sabu, to China soon.
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One hacker who goes by the name th3j35t3r recently published a suspected name and Portugese address for Sabu on his blog.
The day after it was announced that Sabu was an FBI informant, Keys wrote about "infiltrating" the hacker's chat room for Reuters.
At least four other core members, including one leading member of the group who uses the handle Sabu, have yet to be detained.
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For example, he said he and many other "Anons" disagree with actions by Sabu and others under the banner of Anonymous splinter-group Lulzsec.
Federal prosecutors allege in court papers that a legendary hacker and Anonymous leader named "Sabu" offered advice on how to infiltrate Tribune's systems.
The day after it was announced that Sabu was an FBI informant, Keys wrote a story for Reuters about "infiltrating" the hackers' chat room.
All of this, of course, was done in secret and without the knowledge of the online community to which Sabu was an iconic figure, Anonymous.
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Sabu, whose real name is Hector Xavier Monsegur, was last week granted a six month delay in sentencing due to his "ongoing cooperation with the government".
The group's leader, a hacker who went by the name of Sabu, worked undercover with the FBI to track down members after he was arrested last year.
After initially claiming that it was taking time to redact the data, LulzSec hacker Sabu announced that the data would be released Thursday at 1pm Greenwich Mean Time.
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Along the way, co-founder and de facto group leader Sabu was arrested on June 6, 2012 by the FBI and, on threat of imprisonment for separate cyber crimes, turned informant.
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Sabu also made the allegations to me during an online interview I carried out with him and a handful of other Anonymous supporters in an invite-only chat channel on March 11, 2011.
Monsegur, known to everyone in that community as Sabu, had become a charismatic, almost mentor-like figure for the community according to sources, showing along with his hacking prowess, an extraordinary knack for attracting online supporters.
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Sabu continued to deny having ever been picked up by the FBI, but as more arrests connected to LulzSec took place, he also seemed to become increasingly agitated with people calling him a snitch on Twitter.
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After asking about the motivations and details behind previous operations for a book I was writing on Anonymous, I asked Sabu about a rumor that was going around about Keys giving hackers access to Tribune.
Louis Monsegur, a family member of the man accused of being Sabu, said Tuesday his relative was "into computers" from a young age, but that he was surprised by the breadth of the allegations against him.
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It appeared online late March last year, when a small group of anti-Anonymous campaigners who went by the name Backtrace Security released a database of suspected Anonymous figures, and pointed to Sabu as being Monsegur from New York City.
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The hacker Sabu has previously been tied to both LulzSec and an Anonymous operation that spilled 71, 000 emails from the security firm HBGary Federal, including a proposal that offered methods for cyberattacks and misinformation campaigns attacking WikiLeaks and its supporters as well as grassroots opponents of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Bizarrely, it featured two titles from a Horace Silver session, 'Message From Kenya' and 'Nothing But The Soul', which were features for Art Blakey's drumming: on the first title he duetted with percussionist Sabu Martinez, but the other was all Blakey (a nice tribute, though, to the drummer's importance in the Blue Note hierarchy).
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