Teenager arrested on suspicion of hacking
 

A teenager has been arrested in a joint Scotland Yard and FBI investigation into the hacking of websites.

The 19-year-old man was held during a raid at a house in Wickford, Essex.

On Monday the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) took its website offline after it was attacked by Lulz Security hackers.

Scotland Yard would not confirm the arrest was connected but did say that it followed a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

The raid in Essex was a "pre-planned, intelligence-led" operation, it said.

The teenager was arrested under the Computer Misuse Act and Fraud Act and is being questioned at a central London police station.

He was arrested by the Metropolitan Police's e-crime unit.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "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.

"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."

Scotland Yard is co-operating with the FBI as well as Essex Police.

An FBI spokesman said they had no comment "at this time".

When Lulz Security, or LulzSec, first appeared in May, the group portrayed itself as a light-hearted organisation, bent on creating online fun and Lulz (laughs).

But LulzSec is said to have been planning to established itself as a rival to Anonymous, the hacking group embroiled in the WikiLeaks fallout.

LulzSec initially targeted US broadcasters PBS and Fox and gaming firms.

But the Twitter page @LulzSec then declared its intention to break into government websites and leak confidential documents.

Channel 4 News claimed LulzSec may have succeeded in hacking into the database of the 2011 census, which hold details of every UK citizen who filled out the survey earlier this year.

LulzSec is also suspected of hacking into CIA, Sony and NHS websites.

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Lulz Security attacks
May 7: US X Factor contestant database
May 10: Fox.com user passwords
May 15: Database listing locations of UK cash machines
May 23: Sonymusic Japan website
May 30: US broadcaster PBS. Staff logon information
June 2: Sonypictures.com user information
June 3: Infragard website (FBI affiliated organisation)
June 3: Nintendo.com
June 10: Pron.com pornographic website
June 13: Senate.gov - website of US Senate
June 13: Bethesda software website. User information
June 14: EVE Online, League of Legends, The Escapist and others
June 20: Soca website taken offline
June 21: National Census database reportedly attacked

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13859868

at 19 years old he was probably a senior member. most of them are moms basement kids around 15-16.

they found someone to make him guilty for all :) and to pay

I feel bad for the kid. I highly doubt he contributed much to the attacks.

he'll rot in jail for that one.

Good. Send him to prison for a while.

Following: 2 Followers: 234,983

They dont seem to care about going to jail

Dear Internets,

This is Lulz Security, better known as those evil bastards from twitter. We just hit 1000 tweets, and as such we thought it best to have a little chit-chat with our friends (and foes).

For the past month and a bit, we've been causing mayhem and chaos throughout the Internet, attacking several targets including PBS, Sony, Fox, porn websites, FBI, CIA, the U.S. government, Sony some more, online gaming servers (by request of callers, not by our own choice), Sony again, and of course our good friend Sony.

While we've gained many, many supporters, we do have a mass of enemies, albeit mainly gamers. The main anti-LulzSec argument suggests that we're going to bring down more Internet laws by continuing our public shenanigans, and that our actions are causing clowns with pens to write new rules for you. But what if we just hadn't released anything? What if we were silent? That would mean we would be secretly inside FBI affiliates right now, inside PBS, inside Sony... watching... abusing...

Do you think every hacker announces everything they've hacked? We certainly haven't, and we're damn sure others are playing the silent game. Do you feel safe with your Facebook accounts, your Google Mail accounts, your Skype accounts? What makes you think a hacker isn't silently sitting inside all of these right now, sniping out individual people, or perhaps selling them off? You are a peon to these people. A toy. A string of characters with a value.

This is what you should be fearful of, not us releasing things publicly, but the fact that someone hasn't released something publicly. We're sitting on 200,000 Brink users right now that we never gave out. It might make you feel safe knowing we told you, so that Brink users may change their passwords. What if we hadn't told you? No one would be aware of this theft, and we'd have a fresh 200,000 peons to abuse, completely unaware of a breach.

Yes, yes, there's always the argument that releasing everything in full is just as evil, what with accounts being stolen and abused, but welcome to 2011. This is the lulz lizard era, where we do things just because we find it entertaining. Watching someone's Facebook picture turn into a penis and seeing their sister's shocked response is priceless. Receiving angry emails from the man you just sent 10 dildos to because he can't secure his Amazon password is priceless. You find it funny to watch havoc unfold, and we find it funny to cause it. We release personal data so that equally evil people can entertain us with what they do with it.

Most of you reading this love the idea of wrecking someone else's online experience anonymously. It's appealing and unique, there are no two account hijackings that are the same, no two suddenly enraged girlfriends with the same expression when you admit to killing prostitutes from her boyfriend's recently stolen MSN account, and there's certainly no limit to the lulz lizardry that we all partake in on some level.

And that's all there is to it, that's what appeals to our Internet generation. We're attracted to fast-changing scenarios, we can't stand repetitiveness, and we want our shot of entertainment or we just go and browse something else, like an unimpressed zombie. Nyan-nyan-nyan-nyan-nyan-nyan-nyan-nyan, anyway...

Nobody is truly causing the Internet to slip one way or the other, it's an inevitable outcome for us humans. We find, we nom nom nom, we move onto something else that's yummier. We've been entertaining you 1000 times with 140 characters or less, and we'll continue creating things that are exciting and new until we're brought to justice, which we might well be. But you know, we just don't give a living fuck at this point - you'll forget about us in 3 months' time when there's a new scandal to gawk at, or a new shiny thing to click on via your 2D light-filled rectangle. People who can make things work better within this rectangle have power over others; the whitehats who charge $10,000 for something we could teach you how to do over the course of a weekend, providing you aren't mentally disabled.

This is the Internet, where we screw each other over for a jolt of satisfaction. There are peons and lulz lizards; trolls and victims. There's losers that post shit they think matters, and other losers telling them their shit does not matter. In this situation, we are both of these parties, because we're fully aware that every single person that reached this final sentence just wasted a few moments of their time.

Thank you, bitches.

Lulz Security

he will do a little time i guess

"This is the Internet, where we screw each other over for a jolt of satisfaction. "

And flaming poop on the doorsteps rulez.

He will maybe roll over that is the way it works ...

They will introduce him to Bubba his new cellmate ...

member or pron.com

flag @ whitehouse.gov

:1orglaugh

HAHAHA lol when i was a kid we used to rap dogs poop up in paper put it on the doorsteps of houses and then set fire to it. Ring the bell and run lol hoping they would try and stamp the fire out

they havnt posted on twitter in almost 24 hours . the lulzsec twitter operator was very active on that thing all damn day

would not be surprised if they really found em

What a great sense of humor these kids have. They could most likely make serious money just writing or making websites.

Too bad. Lock 'em up and throw away the key. Time to make some examples.

they have posted in the last hour

"LulzSec The Lulz Boat
People should keep releasing fake LulzSec stuff. It helps filter out the peon masses from the respectable, fact-checking media outlets.
1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply"


"LulzSec The Lulz Boat
Never disappointing: youtube.com/watch?v=3pY1DC? (we prefer this one, it's funnier)
2 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply"

They could make a shyte load doing security for sites too

I am pretty sure Lulsec really has no clue about Anonymous. Anon has thousands of members.
THOUSANDS and far more open source thought...

Lulsec is a Braggert script kiddie. ( Says an informed source )
The kid busted is most likely from Lulsec group, and to dumb to jump proxies and not leave a trail.

hmm the last one i see from the lulzsec twitter is


LulzSec The Lulz Boat
DDoS is of course our least powerful and most abundant ammunition. Government hacking is taking place right now behind the scenes. #AntiSec
20 Jun

they grabbed some guy who ran an irc channel.

people don't understand that these movements are first and foremost IDEAS, so even if they pick everyone up if the idea is alive, someone will resume the battle.

there is a history to this sort of organization and why it came about (out of the leaderless resistance tactics of the neo-nazis who developed it to deal with infiltration of their groups and more) ....

Bingo.:thumbsup

that sounds pretty interesting. have you any more info on that?

Very true but 9/10 they eventully evolve or fade. For the most people dont even realize how many sites and info they have got a hold off. They dont make every hack public.

al qaeda didn't die with bin laden, which was organized on similar principles, for one example.

Ryan Cleary is not part of LulzSec; we house one of our many legitimate chatrooms on his IRC server, but that's it.

WOW... Lulsec is a dick. Just wow...
He broke all kinds of rules just by saying that.

I got other things to do today LOL:) See ya Halfpint.

We use Ryan's server, we also use Efnet, 2600, Rizon and AnonOps IRC servers. That doesn't mean they're all part of our group.

Clearly the UK police are so desperate to catch us that they've gone and arrested someone who is, at best, mildly associated with us. Lame.

Oh well - less tweet spam now. Best watch out, they can't get us, so they're going after people they think might know us. Defend yourselves.

Yeah pretty lame

LOL cya :)

damn their site is full of hacked data.,

Unusual stenciled graffiti on Mission Beach boardwalk

SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - A serial graffiti artist is tagging local beaches.

People living near Mission Beach say the unusual graffiti first appeared last week on the boardwalk.

It was quickly painted over, but the stenciled words were back Monday morning. It's unclear what the words mean. :helpme

Lifeguards say they haven't received any formal complaints.

Anyone with information should call police. LOL :helpme


See the vid here
http://www.cbs8.com/story/14941495/u...each-boardwalk