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Police arrest 'hactivism' pair

Saturday 03 September 2011 00:00 BST

Two alleged members of the so-called "hacktivism" groups Anonymous and LulzSec have been arrested as part of a joint investigation by British police and the FBI.

The men, aged 20 and 24, were arrested yesterday at addresses in Doncaster in South Yorkshire and Warminster in Wiltshire under the Computer Misuse Act.One is suspected to have been involved in large-scale attacks designed to block access to websites targeted by the groups.

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