Elite hacker arrested in NY cooperated from Day 1

He was arrested at 10:15 p.m. 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.

“Since literally the day he was arrested, the defendant has been cooperating with the government proactively,” Assistant U.S. Attorney James Pastore told a judge in New York during a secret court session for Monsegur on Aug. 5. Over the past few months, the prosecutor said: “The defendant has literally worked around the clock with federal agents. He has been staying up sometimes all night engaging in conversations with co-conspirators that are helping the government to build cases against those co-conspirators.”

That cooperation resulted in the arrests of five other alleged hackers this week in Ireland, Scotland, England and the U.S., a takedown that stunned fellow Internet saboteurs known for prizing anonymity and a culture of resistance.

Anon is a joke, and this is the punchline.