The man named by the FBI as infamous hacktivist Sabu was undone by an embarrassing security blunder, it has emerged.
The alleged LulzSec kingpin eventually copped to a battery of hacking charges last August and was reported to have been "co-operating" with the FBI in the months leading up to yesterday's arrests.

Police locked onto Hector Xavier Monsegur, an unemployed 28-year-old from New York

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