Hacker ‘Sabu’ exposed as FBI collaborator

In his Twitter postings, the elite computer hacker known as ‘Sabu’ urged followers to resist the US government and its agents.

But court papers made public yesterday reveal that Hector Xavier Monsegur put up no such fight when FBI agents first knocked on his door on June 7. From almost that first moment, he began talking, naming names and helping investigators pick apart the international community of Internet saboteurs.

He was arrested at 10.15pm. By the next day, federal prosecutors had told a judge that Monsegur had given them detailed information on other hackers suspected of breaking into the computer systems at several big corporations.