A
teenage boy has been arrested on suspicion of being a member of
"TeamPoison", a computer hacking group that has claimed responsibility
for 1,400 offences including an attack on the phone system of Scotland
Yard's counter-terrorism unit last month. These include attacks on the
United Nations, the UK Anti-Terrorist Hotline, MI6 and RIM, as well as
politicians including Nicolas Sarkozy and Tony Blair.
The boy, who police suspect used the
hacker nickname 'MLT' and was a spokesman for TeamPoison, was
interviewed at a local police station on offences under the Computer
Misuse Act on Wednesday. The arrest is part of an ongoing investigation
by the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) division of the Metropolitan
Police into various hacking gangs who have made headlines in the last
year or so.
TeamPoison’s highest-profile
attack was mounted against Scotland Yard’s counter-terror hotline last
month, has also claimed responsibility Distributed Denial of Service
attacks against banks in collaboration with Anonymous, another
“hacktivist” group with similar anti-corporate and anti-authority
politics.
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