In a bizarre search, Belgian police located a member of the collective Anonymous Belgium when investigating an arson case at a local bank.
The offender, a 35 man from Roeselare, was originally arrested because he threw a Molotov at the Crelan Bank office in Rumbeke, a suburb of Roeselare, 2014.
The police watched the suspect because during or after the drop of Molotov he fell down USB stick.
The data in the USB led the police to a person we will only mention as Brecht S.
But a search in the suspect's home and an exploration of its history on the internet revealed a long history of cybercrime.
The accusations indicate that besides throwing Molotov at a Crelan Bank office, Brecht also DDoS attacks in e-banking Crelan's portal, managing to bring the site down for many hours, many times.
In court, Brecht said he attacked the bank because Crelan executives refused to meet him after the disappearance of € 300.000 from his mother's bank account after divorce from his father.
He justified all his attacks as revenge for his mother's financial losses.
But the DDoS attacks were not an isolated case according to the indictment.
Belgian police reported that Brecht was also an active member of Anonymous Belgium and Cyber Crew hacking groups, and was actively involved in some of the businesses them, such as hitting FIFA, the international soccer federation.
Brecht also allegedly organized blackmail through DDoS to a pizza restaurant. Investigators said the suspect attacked and destroyed DDoS's restaurant's site and many times asked for a ransom to stop his attacks.
Brecht's investigation also exposed a hacker partner, 44 from Bruges, with whom Brecht had previously exchanged tools via Facebook.
According to Belgian website Het Laatste Nieuws, both involved in many other cyber attacks, but the researchers were unable to confirm them because Facebook refused to cooperate in the investigation.
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