Five held in cyber probe

THREE teenagers were arrested yesterday on suspicion of computer hacking linked to attacks on companies perceived as enemies of whistleblowing website Wikileaks.

The three boys aged 15, 16 and 19, were arrested with two men, aged 20 and 26 in co-ordinated arrests.

The Metropolitan Police said: “The arrests are in relation to recent and ongoing ‘distributed denial of service’ attacks (DDoS) by an online group calling themselves Anonymous.