FBI Anonymous profiles leaked

HACKTIVIST GROUP Anonymous has leaked a document it claims contains US government dossiers on its leaders.

The document was leaked last night and shared at the Megaupload media and document hosting web site.

The PDF file is marked as having been sent by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to the Department of Justice. According to Anonymous it is marked as classified and was produced in August.

In it there are psychological profiles of Anonymousabu, Kayla and Topiary, who are perhaps the best well known of the hackers, as well as other players Tflow and Joepie91. Each is thought to be male and in their early to mid twenties.

Topiary is marked as "Status captured", but although it's been reported that Kayla has also been captured the document was presumably produced too early to include that detail.

The psychological profiles are not kind to the hacktivists and include what you might assume to be typical suggestions of bad upbringings, narcissism and obsessive behaviours.

They are likely just a sketch of the players, however, and the FBI's Behavioural Science Unit (BSU) recommended in the document that agents be inserted into the group's chatrooms in order to gather more information.

"Because of the nature of Anonymous and the internet, it is harder to get a real idea of where users are if they know how to hide their tracks online. The use of the social aspects (what hackers would call 'social engineering') will be key to gaining access to data that will eventually lead to capture," the FBI added in the document.

"These profiles are solely based on intemet chats and as such, may also be somewhat incorrect as the users know that they are being monitored in certain areas of the internet. However, as an aggregate, the data presented and assessed gives the BSU some confidence in the data presented here."

For now the group is presented as out of control, lacking in coherence and on the run, and the FBI expects that its members' use of technology will be their downfall. µ