Thu, Jul 28, 2011 | 12:18 BST

Scotland Yard arrests LulzSec frontman on Shetland Isles

According to a Scotland Yard statement, a hacker associated with LulzSec has been arrested on the Shetland Islands off the coast of Scotland.

A 19-year-old known as ‘Topiary’ was arrested in the swoop.

He was arrested under the Section 3 of the Computer Misuse Act and Section 1 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 at a residential address in the Shetland Islands and is currently being transported to a police station in central London.

A search is underway at the address. The LulzSec Twitter account hasn’t been updated since yesterday.

A residential address in Lincolnshire is also being searched. A 17-year-old man is being interviewed under caution at a Lincolnshire police station in connection with the inquiry. He has not been arrested.

LulzSec was responsible for a string of DDOS attacks aimed at games companies and other firms earlier this.

A previous arrest had been linked to the group, but was later confirmed as unrelated.

9 comments

Blerk
28/07/11, 12:10 pm

Lulz!

NeoSquall
28/07/11, 12:13 pm

@1 I second that!

AHA-Lambda
28/07/11, 12:45 pm

lololololol

Dannybuoy
28/07/11, 12:47 pm

Nail that bastards balls to the wall, then trigger-tack his scrotum to it too for good measure.

Pat, 2nd to last sentence is missing the word year from the end no? #typospotting

DarkElfa
28/07/11, 1:09 pm

Lulsacked!

Crab of Thunder
28/07/11, 2:49 pm

Shhetlands islands? Who could of guessed…

TheWulf
28/07/11, 3:09 pm

Huh, so they got Topiary? Impressive! I wonder which of them they’ll get next…

/popcorn

Of course, this was made possible by PROPER hacking groups making information about LulzSec available. Just FYI to the more ludditely hacker haters, here.