U.K. police arrested a 19-year-old on Monday for allegedly attacking a police website earlier in the day, in what is the first arrest connected with the rogue hacking group Lulz Security. The Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) said the teenager was detained following an investigation into network intrusions and distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against “a number of …

HARTFORD, Conn. — Hackers who claimed responsibility for online attacks of Sony and the CIA said they compromised the security of more than 1,000 accounts of a Connecticut-based FBI partner organization, hours before releasing a Web manifesto calling for “war” on governments that control the

The hack into the SegaPass online newsletter and gaming service that the company announced yesterday bears the hallmarks of a Lulz Security attack. Confidential login information for some 1.3 million users was leaked, just like what LulzSec did with information from Pron.com, Sony, and an unnamed site tentatively identified as Writerspace.