Taken from a ZDNet article
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-948179.html
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They were all members of two hacking groups, called "Mentor" and "Reservoir Dogs," the police said. The individuals were based in
cities throughout Italy, they said.
The arrests are the culmination of several months of investigation, which began last October and was initiated by the U.S. Secret
Service following the theft of sensitive files from U.S. government and military sites. The U.S. Army CID (Criminal Investigation
Command), U.S. Navy and the U.S. Secret Service assisted in the investigation.
Besides the theft of government documents, the suspects are accused of running up large bills on credit card numbers stolen from
servers and of using information gained from their attacks to crack an encryption system called SECA2, used by Italy's Tele+ and
Stream satellite broadcasters.
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Now it all depends on how you read a key phrase, I read it as they were using hacked information to crack the Seca 2 system, but using the word crack as the process of breaking the code, not as the actual achievement of breaking the code.
What does everyone else think.
Rolf