Website Defacer DkD, now known to be a 17 year old teenager in France, who famously compromised many hundreds of websites around the globe was arrested earlier this week on a warrant issued by French authorities.
Notable defacements include UK government site Defencebills.gov.uk [Rootsecure.net report], Kevin Mitnick�s company site defensivethinking.com [Rootsecure.net report], and many other US government / military sites.
The warrant (issued in response to the �Pas de Calais� website defacement) was executed in the form of a dawn raid Tuesday morning at 6am local time by French police from the SRPJ, and L'O.C.L.C.T.I.C. (Office Central de Lutte contre la Criminalit� li�e aux Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication). L'O.C.L.C.T.I.C. was created in May 2000 in order to fight emerging computer crime.
Police seized a number of items from his residents including computer equipment, cds and a diary/agenda. In a phone conversation with a reporter from French online / in-print publication �Zataz�, DkD said police were sympathetic and polite, but made sure he understood that he had done wrong.
While in custody, messages of support for DkD appeared on several defaced *.mil websites stating �FREE DkD[||!! Hacktivism will never die!� bearing some resemblance to what happened while Kevin Mitnick was held in prison.
DkD was released after being held for only two days, under the condition he reports back to a police station once a month, and does not use the Internet for an as yet undetermined amount of time.
The arrest will likely send a chilling reminder of the consequences to those involved with defacing websites, occasionally people are indeed caught.
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Article was found here
http://www.rootsecure.net/?p=reports/dkd_arrested Defencebills.gov.uk Defaced Report
http://www.rootsecure.net/?p=reports/defence_bills_defaced The true story of how defensivethinking.com got "hacked" for a second time
http://www.rootsecure.net/?p=reports/dtdefacement2
