Spain arrests hackers after two-year spree

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

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When I was 14, I was busy reading Stephen King and, ummmm, touching myself. A team of five kids in Spain, however, have spent the last two years hacking 21,000 web pages. The youngest pair started at 14 and just got caught after police in Barcelona, Burgos, Malaga, and Valencia worked together to bring down this insolent ring of rapscallions.

Why were they caught? The kids defaced the website of the left-wing allience (Izquierda Unida) and essentially pissed off the wrong people.

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