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.
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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.
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