Tuesday, June 21, 2011

British teenager is arrested over LulzSec hacking attacks


Little more than a day after starting the campaign AntiSec nothing daring, whose main target servers financial institutions and governments, the group of hackers may have lost LulzSec responsible for leading the whole mess. At least that's what says Scotland Yard, which announced Tuesday morning that they had arrested a teenager suspected of running the group.


The suspect's name was not disclosed, but Scotland Yard (who acted in partnership with the U.S. intelligence agency FBI) said he found the teenager after an investigation in DDoS attack against the group made ​​the site of the CIA, among other attacks . The boy is 19 and was arrested in the town of Wickford, Essex in the district, by agents of the cybercrime division of the British police and is being questioned in London.

By the time of publication of this post, the group account on Twitter, used for official announcements and press releases release pretentious, admitted there was the arrest of their leader or saying anything about it.

Is this the beginning of the end of a group that could stir the calm waters of the internets? Or was it a sort of hydra, in which a head is cut off, two others take their place?