International hunt for hackers LulzSec computer linked to cyber attacks on police and Government Web sites in the UK and the United States has led to the arrest of an 18-year-old man in Shetland.
The Metropolitan Policecrime e-unit said the man used online nickname Topiary, alias for the Group's main spokesman.
This was the first European arrest warrant attached to the LulzSec and the hacking broader collective anonymous where the police have identified suspects arrested immediately online identity. Police also searched a house in Lincolnshire and interviewed a 17-year-old man under caution, although no arrests were made.
The arrest of Topiary is the third made in the United Kingdom in the search for members of the group, after Ryan Cleary, in Essex, in June, and arrest and release in London last week of a 16-year-old known online as Tflow. The apparent ringleader of the group, known online as Sabu, remain large.
LulzSec claims to have carried out attacks on a number of sites, including the Sun last week when it redirected readers to a false story claimed that Rupert Murdoch was dead, and the other in May and June including attacks on the United Kingdom's serious Organised Crime Agency, an FBI-affiliated Web site, the US Congress and Sony's European network.
"Topiary" was Wednesday moved to London to interview. The main Twitter account connected to LulzSec, which has more than 340 000 supporters, and which allegedly controls, Topiary fell silent shortly before noon Wednesday. Topiarys own Twitter feed, @ atopiary, was annihilated clear on Friday, Save for one Tweet reading: "you can arrest an idea".
Police in the UK and the United States has been rounding up suspected members of LulzSec, and those in January participated in attacks on PayPal Web site payments as part of the anonymous hacking collective. Last week the FBI made 16 arrests of alleged participants in the attacks, and it is believed to have a list of addresses for 1,000 computer it targeting.
Wednesday staged members of anonymous and LulzSec a peaceful protest against PayPal for its refusal to allow payments to WikiLeaks by closing their PayPal accounts.
The arrest in Shetland was carried out by Markedsøkonomisks e-crime unit in conjunction with the Scottish crime and drug enforcement agency (SCDEA) and Lincolnshire police.
The unnamed 16-year-old man from south London, was arrested and released without charge on bail last week. He is due to return for further questioning in August.
Cleary shows a court London on 30 August is charged with a series of attacks on Web sites. Cleary was charged with five offences under criminal law and Computer abuse acts, including an alleged attack on Socas homepage.
Earlier this week, the group claimed to have broken down sites belongs to Italy's Cybercrime police unit and Nato. NATO has said it will investigate the allegations. The Group also claims to have a large number of e-mails collected from an attack on News International servers.
Rival hackers try regularly to stay Lulzsecs internal team members by publishing alleged details about their real identities, a process known as "doxing". More such efforts to reveal the Topiary in June suggested he may be located in the UK or Ireland, although some ostensibly as Topiary denied these in chat channels.
Contacts within the anonymous propose Topiary hasn't been seen online in several days.
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