A British teenager suspected of being a mastermind behind notorious international computer hacking group LulzSec has been arrested in a joint police operation. The arrest of the 19-year-old, from Essex, comes just days after the group claimed it brought down the US Central Intelligence Agency's website . The alleged hack on CIA.gov occurred on the same day Lulz Security opened a telephone request line so its fans could suggest potential targets. On Twitter, the group wrote: "Tango down - CIA.gov - for the lulz". The FBI and Scotland Yard launched an investigation immediately and detectives from the force's e-crime unit swooped on the teen's home in Wickford on Monday. LulzSec has risen to prominence in recent months, claiming credit for attacks on Sony and Nintendo, as well as the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency, the public-facing site of the US Senate and the CIA. Sky's Home Affairs correspondent Mark White said if the teen is found to be involved than he could be extradited to America to face trial. Police said the teen is being questioned under the Computer Misuse Act and Fraud Act. A Scotland Yard spokesman said searches at his residential address following his arrest led to "the examination of a significant amount of material". He added: "The arrest follows an investigation into network intrusions and distributed denial of service attacks against a number of international business and intelligence agencies by what is believed to be the same hacking group." The Met and Essex Police are working "in cooperation" with the FBI, the spokesman said. The teenager remains in custody at a central London police station. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/essex-teen-arrested-fbi-global-hacking-probe-112812588.html
hopefully they will extradite him, send him to the USA, throw the book at him, bang him up in a big mans prison, see how bad he is there. maybe Sony will push for lethal injection for causing them to kowtow.
naturally, wouldn't be cool if they said "Yeah you got one of our guys", that would land him right in it, the police/FBI will know by the significant amount of material they have found in his house and all that is on his PC. He doesnt seem to bright getting caught like that, maybe he is just a script kiddie like most of them nowadays.
If anyone should be offered a job it should be 'Gary McKinnon', a proper hacker, but he is also banged up doing hard time. Many people can do what this idiot did (assuming he is more than a script kiddie), they just choose to not be so destructive. Well that's his career down the drain when he gets a criminal record.
They should give him lifelong pain, whether financial, professional, whatever; just something to persistently remind him, and to cost him, for what he had done.
This is true, this was on the radio earlier on today. I was like WTF!? I wanted to know who he was just to say whether I have met him or not considering I live in Essex xD Although he had got caught and taken in for questionning, I put my hat down to him to do in CIA's and PSN's server and hack it. Just to prove that their security are utterly shite and the public should be careful of what they do with their info and/or whether to commit any crimes or make themselves a target of the CIA/police
^ Thats the thing, people think they are some kind of good guy doing what they do to show security weakness. in reality they are just criminals. look at all the passwords and personal details they have put out that has resulted in people losing their paypal accounts and having money taken and having their lives ruined. Im an xbot but it really annoys me that people would go out of their way to take down PSN at everyone elses expense, then all they do is brag about it, if they were about security weaknesses they would not have done that. then they go for Nintendo and a other games too. tbh anyone can do what he did, just download a program, run it, and there you go. If he was a proper hacker i doubt he would have gotten caught like that, from the sounds of it he was way out of his depth. maybe this guy will turn super grass and reveal info on the others.
In my eyes everyone is a criminal. I know what this kid had done is not ethically and morally good. But I see a bigger picture in a sense where the public shouldn't be too trusting in using technology and leave their most personal information to a place where it could be taken away from them just like that. Not saying that people shouldn't use tech and what not but they should be careful. Maybe I don't game enough to know why but why would anyone put their bank details and shit like that on their PS3s? When PSN went down, all I see people moaning about was that this was all Sony's fault and saying along the lines that the hacker may have caused the inconvience and costing people's lives and monies, but they still blamed Sony. At the end of the day, the kid will get tortured for the rest of his life for the things that he had done but there are worse people out there than him. This kid also made us aware that we, the public, shouldn't let our guards down when it comes to giving out our personal infos on any kind of technology at all.
^don't you have personal information on your school website? Dont you need it to register for things? Can you do anything to be more "aware" if the school security failed and it has been hacked? would you be a criminal also then? The thing is if they can hack huge networks such as the playstation network or even the CIA public site it could've been your school network or even your online bank account. So if you got hacked your a criminal for the school/company's failed security? Thing is not everyone in the world is a tech expert and its not like they can do anything about it if they got hacked. Anyways this kid will either be lucky and they offer him a job or what i think should happen is that he get charged as an adult because now that technology has become part of our lives whats the difference to this than using someone's fake ids and stealing money. Most applications and such requires online accounts nowadays so i dont see it slowing down anytime soon. And applications means inputting the personal information into websites to the nth degree. I dont know if he did steal stuff but what gave him the right to peek into other's personal lives. I know some people were rooting for these hackers when they started hacking PSN as a rebuttal to them punishing george hotz etc and first removing linux and such but thing is power can change people and i see it all here. They feel as though they are unstoppable so they move on to other things and eventually posted email information of people online.
^ Nope I don't put any personal info in school websites At the end of the day I say be more aware of what they put in as in "where" and at only necessary places as some people may put all their personal info at the most stupidest places where people can get into easily if hacked. What I meant by criminal is not in the sense of what this kid had done. I'm generalising the term criminal as in everyone has commited a crime of some sort against the law, whether that we think it's morally right or wrong does not matter. So in relation to what you said that "we are criminals if the school network had been hacked" is not even slightestly relevant to the point i was making
You'd be surprised bbgirl, I bet a million bucks your info is out on teh interwebz. You see, every time you fill up a form, every time you pay by card, every time you sign up to services, every time you go to the doctor, they take your form, and they store it in a database. Now I highly doubt those databases are isolated from the outside world. You see, as much as you may think you don't put any information in any websites, you do so unknowingly, and you are forced to do so. Every time you visit websites, they can view your Internet usage trends, that's how there are ads that are tailored to your likes. They take information from you very easily. The only way of truly being isolated and not have any type information public is to be born/raised/live in a cave, without a birth certificate, and without the right to be called a human being.
Of course I am aware that my info is on the internet however I am willing to accept the consequences of being eventually being a victim of identity theft or a victim of someone hacking and grabbing my info. At the end of the day I wouldn't exactly going onto blame the hacker opr the theif himself, I would be blaming 1) me for not being careful and 2) whatever company that is suppose to be responsible for keeping my info somehow confidential
