{"id":444922,"date":"2011-06-21T11:55:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T11:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/21\/teenager-held-over-website-hacks\/"},"modified":"2011-06-21T11:55:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T11:55:56","slug":"teenager-held-over-website-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/21\/teenager-held-over-website-hacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager held over website hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"62.4923826935\"><span><span>21 June 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>07:55 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A teenager has been arrested in a joint Scotland Yard and FBI investigation into the hacking of websites.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old man was held during a raid at a house in Wickford, Essex.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the UK&#8217;s Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) took its website offline after it was attacked by Lulz Security hackers.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland Yard would not confirm the arrest was connected but did say that it followed a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The raid in Essex was a &#8220;pre-planned, intelligence-led&#8221; operation, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager was arrested under the Computer Misuse Act and Fraud Act and is being questioned at a central London police station.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested by the Metropolitan Police&#8217;s e-crime unit.<\/p>\n<p>A Scotland Yard spokesman said: &#8220;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Searches at a residential address in Wickford, Essex, following the arrest last night have led to the examination of a significant amount of material. These forensic examinations remain ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scotland Yard is co-operating with the FBI as well as Essex Police.<\/p>\n<p>When Lulz Security, or LulzSec, first appeared in May, the group <a href=\"http:\/\/lulzsecurity.com\/\" title=\"Lulz Security website\">portrayed itself<\/a> as a light-hearted organisation, bent on creating online fun and Lulz (laughs).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/technology-13859868\" title=\"Teenager held over website hacks\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Teenager held over website hacks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 21 June 2011 Last updated at 07:55 ET A teenager has been arrested in a joint Scotland Yard and FBI investigation into the hacking of websites. 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