The Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) has arrested an 18-year old man in the Shetland Isles suspected of being a member of the Lulz Security (LulzSec) and Anonymous hacking groups.
The man is said to have the alias Topiary which is the name of a spokesman for both groups. He has featured in several TV broadcasts and had a Twitter account that covered hacking exploits until it was cleared on July 21 leaving the single message “You cannot arrest an idea”.
News site DailyTech, backed by claims from anti LulzSec hacker The Jester (th3j35t3r), is sure that the real Topiary is a Swedish hacker who laid a false trail to a “troll” – a grudge framing of a person who has upset LulzSec or Anonymous.
Last month the blog site LulzSecurityExposed, run by a group calling themselves the Web Ninjas, supposedly “doxed” (documented – real world identity and details revealed) Topiary. The group is dedicated to exposing LulzSec members. They identified Topiary as Daniel Ackerman Sandberg a 23-year old from Uppsala, Sweden, a conclusion which coincides with The Jester’s beliefs.
Just to muddy the waters even further, the Web Ninjas also doxed the leader of LulzSec, who goes by the name of Sabu, as a Portuguese network technician named Hugo Carvalho. However, this claim seems to be called into doubt and there is an ongoing dialogue between the Ninjas and Carvalho in which he is providing the group with proof that he is not involved with LulzSec at all.
The Scottish troll, if the rumours prove true, is just a fall guy. The same is said to be true of Ryan Cleary who was arrested recently in Essex.
There was a third “traitor” in the log leaking incident known online as Xero but thought to be Ryan King and speculation is that the Scottish arrest may turn out to be Xero and not Topiary.
It all sounds as though the police may have been duped but there are holes in the tale. There is no evidence that Cavenaugh was arrested and it is hard to tell whether we are talking bluff or double bluff.
There is no doubt that the PCeU have laid hands on some active hackers but who they really are depends on whether anyone cracks and confesses all or if the police computer forensics team can turn up something definitively compromising.
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ROFL we know all!!!
who gives a fuck already about lulzsec and anonymous they are all script kiddies that can't do jack shit, but the media is making them out to be god. RETARDS?
Hello Ryan you moron Script Kiddies?
So you say with a simple Script which you downloaded you can hack websites like The Sun newspaper and goverment's No you cannot you idiot. you think you can hack? Well? I would like to see what you've hacked. Anyway I believe that nobody can really catch a Hacker and know if that is the person. It could be someone they have put a RAT on the PC and can put loads of files on the computer that would link them to Lulzsec. and if you're looking for Script Kiddie's go to the goverment.