Monsegur was quietly arrested by the FBI in June 2011 and immediately turned informant. Prosecutors have said that he’s monitored around the clock, and restricted to using an FBI-provided computer that records everything he does. Hammond, using the handle “Sup_g,” told Sabu on Dec. 6, 2011, that he planned to hack Stratfor, then did so a week later. Hammond publicly released the data, but several months followed before the FBI arrested Hammond. The moral of the story: the FBI can entrap hackers, and businesses that have been owned by hackers may get used as bait.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/stratfor-hacker-fbi-entrapment-shaped-my-case