Dutch police have arrested a 16-year-old youth for hacking the Mastercard and Paypal websites, the public prosecution department said on Thursday evening.

A number of websites, including those of international credit card companies and the Swedish prosecution department were taken offline for a time after coordinated attacks by supporters of the Wikileaks website and its founder Julian Assange.
As soon as it became obvious the attack had been launched from the Netherlands, the national police squad’s High Tech Crime team began investigating, the prosecution department said in a statement.
According to the Telegraaf, the hackers used a server in Haarlem to launch the attack.

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The boy was identified yesterday, he was arrested and his computers and other equipment taken away for analysis, the department said. The youth, who has not been named, has admitted involvement in the attacks and will appear in court in Rotterdam on Friday.
The department says it is likely the boy, who is believed to come from The Hague, is part of a larger group of hackers and the investigation is continuing.
The Telegraaf states at the moment the police are only interested in people responsible for carrying out the attacks, not those who have simply allowed their computers to be used by hackers.
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