Police charge Scottish teen over Soca attack
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UK police have charged an 18-year-old with hacking the Serious Organised Crime Agency's (Soca) website as part of an ongoing investigation into the infamous LulzSec and Anonymous hacktivist crews.
Jake Davis, who allegedly used the online nickname Topiary and acted as a spokesman for the groups, will face five computer hacking charges at a hearing at the City of Westminster Magistrates Court on Monday.
The rap sheet includes a charge related to participating in denial of service attacks that floored Soca's website in June.
Davis, who was arrested in the Shetland Islands last week, is the second person to be arrested over attacks on Soca's website, following the arrest of Ryan Cleary, 19, of Wickford, Essex, last month. A 16-year-old teenager from South London was arrested and questioned by police around the same time as Cleary's arrest and bailed to return in late August, pending further inquiries.
Officers from the Central Police eCrime Unit also questioned, but did not arrest, a 17-year-old teenager from Lincolnshire last week as part of the same ongoing investigation. ®
COMMENTS
If you poke a bear
You should expect it to react with claws.
Re: I thought he was supposed to be the wrong guy now?
When has that *ever* stopped the Met?
defacing and spray painting
Spray painting is vandalism, not art as some people like to try tell us, I have paid good money to clean "art" from my shop walls, it was never asked permission nor did I agree to have "art" put there. Vandalism is still vandalism under any premise.
If they break into my shop and deface the windows, it's criminal damage and trespass, or breaking and entering with intent to damage property on top of the vandalism and criminal damage.
Artists paint on whatever medium with the owners consent, not just "because i felt like it"
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