One of LulzSec ’s purpose kingpins is now in police hold . Topiary , apparently a 19 - year - old Scotch kid , was contain by the UK ’s Metropolitan Police Service ’s Police Central vitamin E - Crime Unit today , and now en route to London . Bad news for LulzSec .
And he ’s not alone , consort to a statement released by the Metropolitan Police :
A residential speech in Lincolnshire is also being searched . A 17 - twelvemonth - old male person is being interviewed under carefulness in connectedness with the inquiry . He has not been catch .
Today ’s operation is connect to PCeU ’s ongoing investigation into web intrusions and give out Denial of Service ( DDoS ) assault against a turn of international business organisation and word agencies by what is consider to be the same hacking group .
Anonymous IRC help , in the meantime , remain skeptical ( or in denial ):
heyguise : do not be afraid
DMT : it ’s probably not topiary
raided : you have to confirm this
DMT : topiary enounce he would melt for a short while
DMT : on twitter a few weeks ago I imagine
DMT : they ’ve got nothing
The striking stay followslast week ’s capture of TFlow , another major LulzSec operator .
https://gizmodo.com/fbi-expands-anonymous-hacker-arrests-nationwide-update-5822692
[ MetPo ]
Update : Guardian journalist James Ballnotesthat Topiary wipe out his intact Twitter feed , with the exclusion of the above , defiant substance — perhaps anticipating his own catch .
Update 2 : Anonymous frontman Sabu has more or lessconfirmedthe arrest :
RIP Topiary Fuck the police force And as for the “ doxers ” you proved how clueless you ALL were when you posted he was from Sweden over 9000 clip .
Update 3 : Sabu’slatest tweetoffers an interesting claim regarding the organization ’s ( I habituate the full term softly ) makeup :
Today Anonymous embark on a massive online completely deconcentrate motion within legal bound . Our mogul is here . And will not go soon .
How much more decentralised could a group like Anonymous become ?
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