Thursday, July 28, 2011

LulzSec spokesperson in custody, reports Scotland Yard

By Suzanne Choney

One of the key members and spokesperson of LulzSec, which is allied with the Anonymous group of hackers, was arrested Wednesday.a

Scotland Yard arrested a 19-year-old who goes by the name "Topiary" online. He was arrested in Scotland's Shetland Islands.a

Topiary, who many times has been an online spokesman for the group, also has given several high-profile interviews in recent weeks, and had downplayed concerns about being caught.a

"Worrying is for fools!" he told Gawker's Adrien Chen last month.a

The "Lulz" in LulzSec's name is Internet speak for laughs, something the group of supposedly six members, has emphasized in its hack of PBS to Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper website last week, when it posted a fake page with a story about Murdoch being found dead.a

Most thought LulzSec was gone from the scene when it said last month it was stepping back to work with Anonymous in efforts to hack government and corporate websites the group deems corrupt. The joint effort is known as "AntiSec," or anti-security.a

Law enforcement in the U.S. and globally has intensified efforts to arrest those believed to be connected to the groups and to various hacks and denial-of-service efforts that have brought government and corporate websites down.a

In the U.S. last week, 16 people were arrested on charges they were involved in major cyber attacks, with 14 of the 16 alleged to have helped bring down the PayPal website last December as retribution for PayPal's dropping of WikiLeaks' donation account.a

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