[June 21, 2011] British teen arrested in hacking probe Tweet LONDON, Jun 21, 2011 (dpa - McClatchy-Tribune News Service via COMTEX) -- Police in Britain have arrested a 19-year-old suspected of masterminding an international computer hacking group, Scotland Yard 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," a Scotland Yard spokesman said. The teenager, named as Ryan Cleary, was believed to have been a "major player" with LulzSec, a hacking group linked with breach attempts at organizations including Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency, the U.S. Senate and the CIA. Authorities on both sides of the Atlantic have been trying to trace the hacking group, which also claimed responsibility for security breaches at games firms Nintendo and Sony, for several weeks. The arrest, which followed a joint, intelligence-led probe by Scotland Yard and the FBI, took place at a residential address in Wickford, in the southern county of Essex, where the examination of a "significant amount of material" continued. ___ (c) 2011, Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH (Hamburg, Germany). Visit dpa on the Internet at http://www.dpa.de/English.82.0.html Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints, email [email protected], call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]