19:18 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nPolice in the US, Britain and the Netherlands have detained more than 20 people as part of an investigation into major cyber attacks.<\/p>\n
Most of the arrests were in the US, where the FBI said 16 people had been held for alleged computer hacking.<\/p>\n
Fourteen of them were suspected of an online attack on PayPal, claimed by hacking group Anonymous, said the FBI.<\/p>\n
In Britain, a teenager was arrested in London, while four other suspects were detained by police in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
Wikileaks ‘revenge’<\/span><\/p>\nThe US indictment against 14 of those arrested on suspicion of December’s attack on PayPal said it had been “retribution” for the site closing a donation account for the whistleblowing website Wikileaks.<\/p>\n
The PayPal attack suspects were arrested in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Washington DC, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico and Ohio, US officials said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The other two US suspects were held under separate indictments but similar charges in Florida and New Jersey.<\/p>\n
In the UK, Scotland Yard told the BBC that it had arrested a 16-year-old boy in south London on suspicion of breaching the Computer Misuse Act 1990.<\/p>\n
“The Metropolitan Police is liaising with the FBI and indeed with our Dutch colleagues,” a Scotland Yard spokesman said.<\/p>\n
As well as attacking PayPal, Anonymous also temporarily shut down MasterCard and Visa last December, after they froze Wikileaks accounts.<\/p>\n
Anonymous targeted Amazon, too, after it removed Wikileaks content from one of its servers, but that attack was not successful.<\/p>\n
The hacking group has used a technique known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) in an attempt to take the sites offline.<\/p>\n
DDoS attacks bombard a website with data until it cannot respond, rendering it inaccessible.<\/p>\n
Anonymous rose to fame with a series of attacks on websites linked to the Church of Scientology and Gene Simmons, bassist with the rock group Kiss.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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