Police said they believe the man arrested is linked to an ongoing international investigation into the criminal activity of “hacktivist” groups Anonymous and LulzSec. The man is also believed to use the online alias Topiary — who describes himself as a “simple prankster turned swank garden hedge” on his Twitter profile.
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As VentureBeat reported earlier, the hacker groups issued an announcement this morning calling for PayPal users to close their PayPal accounts in response to a recent string of FBI arrests of Anonymous members who participated in last December’s distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the company.
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