Dutch authorities said she arrested a 16-year-old boy suspected in attacks on websites of MasterCard and visa allegedly assembled by sympathizers of document leaking website WikiLeaks.
Police the suspect arrested late Wednesday evening at his home in the Hague and according to Wim de Bruin, a spokesman for the Dutch public prosecutor said he had confirmed in the attacks on the websites of the two credit cards companies involved.
Police confiscated computers and data storage devices.
The young not name but confirm authorities which is remains in custody and, to appear before a judge on Friday. A lawyer for the young could not be reached.
Dutch authorities said a 16-year-old boy suspected in attacks on websites of MasterCard and visa which allegedly document leaking mounted website WikiLeaks which of supporters arrested. Eelco Hiltermann reports from Amsterdam.Dutch police think he part of a larger group of sympathizers of WikiLeaks behind the so-called denial of service attacks, is a server computers in the flood prevent said display a Web page, Mr de Bruin. Dutch authorities say the group which called operation payback do perform the attacks as an expense. The police are their investigation, including research on the potential involvement of others in the Netherlands.
MasterCard Inc. and Visa Europe which are both recently suspended payments to WikiLeaks, a growing list of organizations and in the last days have suffered individuals, the online attacks, to be an effort by hackers in what seems bent on demanding revenge for the document leaking site.
The computer attacks have increased claims in the last few days after the arrest Tuesday in London of WikiLeaks founders Julian Assange in connection with sexual misconduct in Sweden in intensity. Mr Assange was on bail and remains denied in custody pending a hearing in the UK next week. He has denied the allegations and has not formally accused were.
WikiLeaks itself was cable and other documents under pressure from the United States after his release of thousands of Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Last week a number of companies to provide the WikiLeaks with different services who ended their relationship PayPal and Swiss bank PostFinance, a unit of Swiss Post with the Organization, including Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc.'s.
In addition attacks have been launched, with organizations and individuals associated with Mr. of Assange's personal legal problems. The Swedish prosecutor and a lawyer represented the two women make allegations against Mr Assange reported difficulties with their websites.
The group behind the attacks seems to a loose collection of people identify themselves as "Anonymous". It is not clear, who is responsible for or speak for this group.
On Thursday, a spokesman for the hackers vowed to a 22-year-old man claiming to be that the attacks would continue on British Broadcasting Corp. radio,. "I see this as a war, but not your conventional war always – this is a war of data," said the man, identify themselves as "ColdBlood." "We try to keep the Internet open and free for everyone."
Speak with an English accent, he said he was in contact with WikiLeaks regarding the campaign say that it "get very hard to keep someone from WikiLeaks."
Operation payback represented the idea that "ColdBlood", a spokesman for the trouble was, later in the day but a post on a Twitter page who claim dismissed.
-Eelco Hiltermann contributed to this article.Write toCassell Bryan-low cassell.bryan-low@wsj.com and Jeanne Whalen on the jeanne.whalen@wsj.com
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