Alleged LulzSec Spokesman: New Details As Bail Set

Prosecutors accuse Jake Davis, aka Topiary, of possessing 750,000 passwords and participating in multiple attacks.

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On Monday, accused LulzSec spokesman Jake Davis, aka Topiary, faced multiple hacking-related charges in British court. He was granted bail until August 30, when he is due to return to court.
Davis arrived at court on Monday carrying a copy of the book
Free Radicals: The Secret Anarchy of Science,
according to Britains
Guardian
newspaper. Davis spoke only to confirm his personal details.
Prosecutors told the court that between Daviss computer and an external hard disk, they found login passwords for 750,000 people, as well as a copy of the
fake story
that LulzSec had placed on
The Sun
newspapers website, claiming that owner Rupert Murdoch had died.
The judge granted Davis bail, citing his youth and lack of previous convictions. Conditions of 18-year-old Daviss release include his wearing an electronic monitoring tag, to ensure he complies with a 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew. He must also forego direct or indirect Internet access via computer or mobile phone.
On Sunday, British police had charged Davis on five counts: unauthorized access to a computer system, encouraging or assisting offenses, conspiracy to carry out distributed denial of service
attacks against the U.K.s Serious and Organized Crime Agency
(which investigates cyber crime), as well as conspiracy to commit computer misuse offenses. Prosecutors alleged that Davis participated in multiple
LulzSec
and Anonymous attacks, including exploits of the U.K.s National Health Service, News International websites, and
Sony
.
More details also emerged about
Daviss arrest on Wednesday
. Authorities found him on Yell, an island with a permanent population of only about 1,000 people, thats one of the northern Shetland Islands, which are off the northeast to the north of Scotland. Frankly, its hard to imagine a more remote place in the British Isles to be, said U.K.-based Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, in a
blog post
.
Several days before Davis was arrested, the LulzSec Twitter feed had been wiped, except for this message: You cannot arrest an idea. That referred to the FBIs recent arrest of multiple people on charges that theyd participated in the Anonymous attacks against multiple websites. In the wake of the arrests, Anonymous had released a statement urging people to
boycott PayPal
.
On Sunday, also in response to those arrests, a statement was
posted on Pastebin
under the
Anonymous and AntiSec banner
claiming that the group had compromised more than 70 law enforcement websites, including alabamasheriffs.com, mostwantedwebsites.net, and stfranciscountyar.org, in response to bogus trumped-up charges against the Anonymous paypal ... attacks.
As of press time, the cited websites, which had previously been active, resolved to a page that read site coming soon. Many if not all of the websites appear to be hosted by Brooks-Jeffrey Marketing. The company was not available for immediate comment, but according to
news reports
, the company began to see suspicious activity on multiple websites last Monday, took them offline, and contacted the FBI.
Beyond exploiting those sites, according AntiSecs statement, the group also stole 10 GB of law enforcement data, including mail spools of police officers across dozens of different police departments, 7,000 officers personal details (username, password, home address, social security numbers, phone numbers), a list of several hundred people who shared Anonymous-related tips with police, as well as police academy training files. The group said it had also obtained lists of active warrants and jail inmates, but planned to redact that information before releasing it.
But the group offered to not release the information, in exchange for law enforcement agencies stopping their investigations. We demand prosecuters [sic] immediately drop all charges and investigations against all Anonymous defendants, according to the statement.
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