After the gigantic debacle surrounding the PlayStation Network outage, its security breach and PR mess, the news we’ve all been waiting for has hit the shelves: three of the Anonymous hackers have been caught.

Leading hackers from the cyber criminal group have been arrested by Spanish Police. The arrests took place in Barcelona, Valencia and Almeria Friday morning and a server hosted in Gijon was seized as part of the operation. The trio is suspected of being leaders in a key cell of the digital vigilante group that breaks into computers and systems online to pursue political activism. The "hacktivists" are accused of hacking the Sony PlayStation network, as well as the sites of major banks BBVA and Bankia, Italian power company Enel, and the governments of Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Iran, Chile, Colombia and New Zealand.

According to the Associated Press, all three are Spaniards aged 30 to 32, said Manuel Vazquez, chief of the police's high-tech crime unit.

Investigations into the group masterminding attacks from Spain on the Spanish Central Electoral Board as well as high profile attacks on Sony’s Playstation store are still ongoing. Police did not give details on the suspects' attacks against Sony. Hackers targeted the company in mid-April, stealing data of tens of millions of user accounts.

A hacker group calling itself LulzSec earlier this month claimed to have broken into a Sony company network, stealing the personal data of more than a million users, including passwords and e-mail addresses, in the latest of a string of attacks on the Japanese company. The group said it had hacked the servers that run SonyPictures.com, part of Sony’s movie and television operations.

Sony was forced to suspend its popular online gaming systems PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment after an April break-in — one of the biggest data breaches since the advent of the Internet — compromised more than 100 million user accounts.

Sony only this month restored PlayStation Network services everywhere except Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea.

The company implemented considerable security enhancements to the network infrastructure, as well as conducted testing of the payment process and commerce functions. The first phase of PlayStation Network and Qriocity restoration began on May 15 in the Americas and Europe/PAL territories, followed by Japan and Asian countries and regions on May 28, when the company brought partial services back online.

The company estimates the hacker attacks will cost it at least 14 billion yen, or $173 million, in damages, "including information technology spending, legal costs, lower sales and free offers to lure back customers," the New York Times writes.