The FBI is cracking down on the loosely affiliated hacking group Anonymous, whose members have claimed participation in just about every recent notable hacking attack.

Suspected members of the group were arrested Tuesday in Florida, New Jersey and California, FoxNews.com was the first to report.

U.S. government officials told CBS News that the raid was a "major" operation and that arrests have been made across the country. FoxNews.com later reported that while 14 arrests were identified in the same indictment, two additional arrests were made with regard to separate criminal complaints that were filed in Newark and Tampa.

Hacker arrests have recently eclipsed hacker mischief — like the Sony PSN takedown and the fake Obama assassination news posted on Fox News' Twitter account — in news headlines.

The FBI issued more than 40 search warrants in January while investigating a string of cyberattacks in defense of WikiLeaks. Last month, Spain arrested three suspects in the Sony case. And days later, Turkey arrested 32 suspected hackers after government websites were attacked in protest to the country's anticipated Internet filters.