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Five Arrested in Spain for Hacking US Government Sites

by Evan Shamoon on May 20, 2008 at 10:35 AM



It's the Spanish inquisition ... dot com. According to authorities, Spanish police have arrested five hackers in various cities around Spain, who allegedly disabled Internet pages run by government agencies in the U.S., Latin America, and Asia.

All of the hackers were 20 or younger -- two of them actually as young as sixteen. The group refers to itself as D.O.M Team, and has attacked more than 21,000 Web pages over the last two years, according to police. The five suspects have actually never met in real life -- their complex coordination was entirely Internet-based.

Among its victims, the group hacked the Venezuelan national telephone company's page, and rumors are circulating that they broke past NASA's security as well. When the group was contacted by El Mundo, it described itself as a bunch of computer-lovers that raid websites to show system administrators the pages' vulnerabilities.

Likely story, kids. [Source: USA Today]

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