“LulzSec suspect” arrested in Scotland Yard, FBI swoop

That guy is so screwed.

Good. Bang him up and make him official soap-retriever.

UK census is a joke anyways, it’s just so US can keep tabs on us.

Are they going to tell us his name, address, date of birth, and credit card details, then? Seeing as he likes that stuff to be out in the open?

Age comes as no surprise… unfortunately he’s just that teeny bit too old to avoid being interrogated with spiky things. \o/

That young man is in very serious shit.

*looks over top of spectacles*

/strokes slightly greying beard

/mine, not Pat’s

How does that saying go… For the Lulz?

Really though, the guy’s a suspect. You can’t hand him over to sexually frustrated gangbangers until he’s gotten a fair trial.

@7 – Saucy.

@9 – depends what I’ve been eating that day…

… the beard.

Well the Twitter feed hasn’t been updated in 8 hours, I wonder if it is just 1 guy.

Police are probably being quite thorough with their digital forensics. Apparently that folder named Pr0n has been passed to every member to make sure nothing is missed.

Do these guys even consider any consequences? Seems that many of todays youths are tomorrows sociopaths. (I’m barely 18 & I sound like an old fart =\).
They think that disrupting federal networks are a joke-what kind of people are raising these tools?

So funny that this guy lives not even 20 mins away from me. xD

Imagine the ‘lulz’ should they confirm he still lives with his parents …

If you are 19 it’s perfectly acceptable to still live with your parents.

@13 Sadly very few police forces have the manpower to do anything about it. I live in a country of roughly 6 million, we have roughly 14,000 police officers, and 27,000 cases of identity theft each year. For a lot of those scammers, that’s a genuine freebie.

Plus, if you do get caught hacking, you’re highly unlikely to ever serve more than 7 years. That’s what’s happened to people who’ve breached federal networks and taken info.

I’d like to see Lulzsec get harder penalties for publishing information, but as long as they don’t use that information for crime themselves, then you can really only punish them for retrieving it.

Lulz =))

It’s front page on the BBC’s international version now – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13859868

DSB, are you from Denmark?

@16
For a regular person sure, but when you have built up a big hacking reputation and attacked websites like the CIA, FBI and SOCA it’s going to look silly.

@20 Yessir

#17
If he really is from Lulzsec, others would no doubt want a piece of him too. If he gets a light sentenced in UK it will add up when he gets extradited to the US. Maybe Japan too if Sony Pictures will persue him.

@21 Reality is never going to be as good as the myth when it comes to hackers.

Hahha! Serves the bastard right! Made my day

Lulz got raged

@23: I’d laugh my ass off if that would be the case.

As much as everyone hates them, they do have a point that everyone seems to be missing in all the chaos that they’re creating.

Your crap is still vulnerable and no one cares. Sony made a big to-do about securing your data after the hacking incident. Even after a month of downtime and round-the-clock work to restore the service, it still had major security flaws (and likely still does).

I really don’t mean to troll, but can’t you people tell a tree from a forest? LulzSec, in it’s way, is doing us a favor. They’re showing us that we can’t trust the people we’ve trusted with our data. When some teenage script kiddie can get his hands on the personal data and credit card information of millions of people OVER AND OVER again, there’s a systemic problem – not a problem with LulzSec.

I’m not a supporter of what they’re doing. I just think it’s useful to see things their way in order to understand why they’re doing what they’re doing. As they’ve aptly demonstrated, the technology used to secure your personal data is laughable.

They’re doing us a favour by showing the insecurities. They’re not doing us a favour by putting everyone’s details on public torrents.

By all means shame the lazy-arsed companies. But don’t fuck the innocents over in the process.

@27
Except they aren’t doing it for those reasons at all. They are doing it for the lulz … http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lulz … there is no grand purpose, it’s all for “fun”.

The main Lulzsec twitter feed is back tweeting btw.

Also more news around the various outlets that the person arrested is Ryan Cleary. Which seems to fit other data like age, address etc. He was a member of Anonymous and went a bit rogue.

@27 Your comment would somewhat make sense if lulz actually cared about that instead of just being a bunch of pricks who have fun at other people’s expenses. Also, everyone knows the internet isn’t a safe place. No one needs having their accounts hacked to realise that. It’s not like you would start mugging people to make your government realise streets aren’t safe and that a bigger police force is needed..

@DrDamn: Very little of the information that they’ve released has been harmful. Yes, they’ve released some email addresses and passwords. But these were only a small percentage of what they actually have. If they were truly malicious, why not just release everything? If it’s just for the lulz, then we would probably have the personal information of everyone who played Brink online. But we don’t.

Make no mistake, LulzSec has an agenda beyond the lulz. Some of their members have publicly stated such. That agenda, to reiterate what I said before, is to show how laughable data security really is.

@ 27

I can understand your thinking but I have to disagree with you here.

LulzSec didn’t hack anything but a Sega Newsletter Site and Bethesda’s Brink player list.They spent their entire time DDos’ing people, which is the equilvalent to taking a couple of thousand PCs, loading the same website and pressing refresh until the server can’t keep up and crashes. This has absolutely nothing to do with pointing out flaws in someone’s security, as soon as the attack stops the site will be back up.
They do what they do not because of some noble motivation. but simply because they can. They are like children who start to throw their toys around, not because they want to break them , but because they’re bored. They claim that they are doing this because they want to point out security flaws, but that’s nothing but a laughable excuse.

You are absolutely right that companies don’t give a damn about the security of our data until they are actually attacked and it’s way too late, but that still doesn’t justify LulzSec’s deeds.

Good.
Now strip him of his consciousness and turn him into a Servitor.

I wonder how will he laugh once his brains will be used in experiments to implement the “first human neural network”, while his arms and legs are replaced by data cables and his torso is filled with server components.

Even in death he shall surf

@34 well no, being entombed in a sacred dreadnought armor is too high an honour for such scum.

nice animation, though.

@Schindet Nemo:

I never said it was justified. I only said it was understandable. And you’re right about the DDOS attacks – there’s really no excuse for them other than to do it for the lulz.

However, if you think all they’ve done is Brink and Sega, you simply haven’t been keeping up. Check their website lulzsecurity.com to see all of the information they’ve released about their attacks.

LulzSec’s still tweeting.

Pat’s still not reading his own comments thread (http://www.vg247.com/2011/06/21/lulzsec-suspect-arrested-by-scotland-yard/#comment-301423)

I have other things to do! Like sleeping, etc.

Pfft – you have kids, you care not for sleep.

One less idiot, round them all up, ban them for life from computer/phone/ipad/whateverthefuck else useage and watch them cry like little girls without their source of ‘lulz’

I can’t wait till they catch the ones who hacked the senate network and charge them with conspiracy and treason.

Lulzsec won’t be over. However, I do wonder how in the hell they find that guy O.o I mean.. someone as good as lolzsec, must have covered their tracks really well in order to hack into several sites, of which the CIA is one of them. I am looking forward how this story develops. In my eyes Lolzsec is one of the best groups in the world at the moment.. Why? Cause they show the world how weak the security really is. Next stop: facebook, hack it open ^^;

GG

Funny thing is these hackers wouldnt be so angry at the world if they could get laid. Now, some of them are going to get more sex then they can cope with.

Be polite and swallow, Ryan. Not so Anonymous now, are you.