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SYDNEY (AP) — Australian police have arrested a man they say is affiliated with international hacking collective Lulz Security on a charge of attacking and defacing a government website, officials said Wednesday.

A Sydney-based IT professional claiming to be a leader of an international hacking collective has been charged with hacking into a government website.

Federal police have charged a 24-year-old NSW man, whom they claim is the leader a computer group known as Lulzsec, with hacking offences.

A self-proclaimed leader of the LulzSec international hacker group has been arrested in Australia, police said on Wednesday, after charging him with attacking and defacing a government website.

The self-proclaimed leader of international hacking group Lulz Security has been arrested in Sydney by Australian Federal Police.

Lulz Security gained notoriety in 2011 for hacking government and corporate websites “for fun”.

The Federal Police say they have arrested the self-proclaimed leader of international hacking group Lulz Security, or LulzSec.

It's right to be nervous of cyber sabotage operations, but a one-off doesn't necessarily mean an online war is imminent.

A group purported to be hacktivists Anonymous says that at the request of the family of Nova Scotia teenager Rehtaeh Parsons, it will withhold the names of the individuals alleged to have raped the teenager before her death, but adds others might not go along with that decision.

LONDON (AP) — It's a promising form of electronic cash free from central bankers and beloved by hackers. It — Bitcoin — may also be in trouble, registering catastrophic losses that have sent speculators scrambling.