A 19 year old man has been arrested in a joint Scotland Yard and FBI investigation into a spate of recent hacking attacks on websites.Police have not identified him, but locally he has been named as Ryan Cleary of Essex, according to the BBC.Sony and Soca, (Serious Organised Crime Squad), have both been targets of recent attacks amid speculation that a group called Lulz Security, (LulzSec), were behind the hacking spate.Mr Cleary was arrested under the Computer Misuse Act and Fraud Act and is being questioned in London. Police seized the 19 year old's computer and are examining it for evidence.
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