Since 2009, thousands of people have been arrested for cyber attacks launched by anonymous people, including Britain, the United States, Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, Turkey and other countries. Anonymous members generally opposed these persecutions and described these arrested people as dying for their actions.

20 1 1 On July 20th, 2008, the FBI arrested 14 people who were suspected of participating in an anonymous hacker group's attack on Paypal.