UK newspaper The Sun had its website hacked and redirected to hacker group LulzSec's Twitter feed. Source: Supplied
- FBI agents raided homes of suspects
- Targets all in late teens to early 20s
- Part of investigation into Anonymous
OFFICERS from the Metropolitan Police's E-Crime Unit in London arrested a 16-year-old boy in South London today, the latest arrest in an international sting operation targeting the notorious hacker groups Anonymous and LulzSec.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police told FoxNews.com that one of the hackers remains in custody in a Central London police station on suspicion of breaching the Computer Misuse Act - and that the teen was believed to be linked to the LulzSec hacker group and the larger group of "hacktivists" that go by the collective handle "Anonymous".
US law enforcement officials confirmed to FoxNews.com that the arrest of the juvenile hacker, who goes by the online user name Tflow, was the latest in a sweeping sting of arrests today, in which 16 suspected hackers were arrested in states across the country, as FoxNews.com first reported.
The FBI executed search warrants at the New York homes of three suspected members of notorious online group "Anonymous" early Monday, FOXNews.com reported, citing sources.
More than 10 FBI agents arrived at the Baldwin, New York, home of Giordani Jordan with a search warrant for computers and computer-related accessories.
The targets of the FBI searches were all in their late teens to early 20s.
Jordan's system was identified as allegedly being used in a coordinated distributed denial of service attack against several companies, a law enforcement official told FOXNews.com.
The search warrants were part of an ongoing investigation into Anonymous and its alleged retaliatory attacks.
The Anonymous group is a loose collection of cyber savvy activists inspired to fight for internet freedom - along the way defacing websites, shutting down servers and scrawling messages across screens web-wide.
The Anonymous group recently turned its efforts to the Arizona police department, posting personal information of law officers and hacking and defacing websites in response to the state's controversial SB1070 immigration law, the group claimed.
While Anonymous is largely a politically motivated organisation, splinter group LulzSec - which dominated headlines in the spring for a similar streak of cyber attacks - was largely in it for the thrills.
The two groups were responsible for a broad spate of digital break-ins targeting governments and large corporations, including Japanese technology giant Sony, the US Senate, telecommunications giant AT&T, FOX.com and other government and private entities.
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