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CabinCr3w Hacker Arrested by FBI

Federal authorities have arrested a Texas man accused of working for the hacking group CabinCr3w, a group that once targeted Goldman Sachs CEO LLoyd Blankfein. Higinio Ochoa, a resident of Texas, was taken into custody by FBI agents on March 20 and charged with unauthorized access to a protected computer in a criminal complaint dated March 15 . The exact nature of Ochoa's crime isn't described, a document posted on the Web site Pastebin.com and purported to be a"confession" by Ochoa alleges that he was arrested for his involvement in a February, 2012, attack on the Texas Department of Public Safety . The post also claims that Ochoa had been working as an informant for the FBI prior to his arrest. CabinCr3w is an Anonymous-like group that voiced support for the Occupy Wall Street movement, and carried out a variety of hacks and online protests in support of it. The group famously leaked personal information and e-mail addresses for the senior leadership of...