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Solihull teenager arrested over government cyber-attack | Solihull teenager arrested over government cyber-attack |
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An 18-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a "significant" cyber-attack on the Home Office. | An 18-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a "significant" cyber-attack on the Home Office. |
The teenager, from Solihull, West Midlands, was arrested in Brighton by West Midlands police. | |
The attack in January 2013 took the Home Office's main website offline for nearly an hour and a half. | The attack in January 2013 took the Home Office's main website offline for nearly an hour and a half. |
The arrested man remains in custody on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences. | The arrested man remains in custody on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences. |
The attack was in the form of distributed denial of service (DDOS), which floods a website with traffic in order to make it unusable. | The attack was in the form of distributed denial of service (DDOS), which floods a website with traffic in order to make it unusable. |
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