Ildefonso Ortiz reports:
A Donna man with ties to the international computer hacking group Anonymous is accused of trying to break into various Web servers, including those of Hidalgo County, La Joya ISD and The Monitor.
Thursday morning, a somber-looking Fidel Salinas went before Magistrate Judge Peter Ormsby, who informed him of the new accusations presented in a superseding indictment that was recently handed up that charges him with 14 separate counts related to Internet hacking. Since his initial arrest in September, Salinas, 27, has been out on bond. … Salinas had originally been indicted in September following an FBI investigation into his attempt to hack the Hidalgo County Web server.
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