Spanish police arrest five 'active' hackers

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MADRID (AFP) — Spanish police on Saturday announced the arrest of five suspected hackers, including two 16-year-olds, who are accused of attacking government websites in the United States, Asia and Latin America.

The youths belonged to "one of the most active groups of hackers on the Internet," having disabled 21,000 Web pages over a two-year period, a police statement said.

"They would substitute the contents of the Web pages attacked with protest messages and included the same anarchist symbols," it added.

Although the group had never met, it is alleged that they organised and coordinated their attacks over the Internet, working in particular with hackers in Latin America.

Police did not identify which government sites were targeted, but the online...