14 DAY TRIAL // According to The Guardian, a couple of teenagers, aged 16 and 17, have been arrested by UK authorities, being suspected of intercepting and leaking the phone call from the MI6 anti-terrorist hotline. However, members of TeaMp0isoN, the hacktivist collective that’s behind the stunt, deny the whole thing.
The suspects were apprehended somewhere in the West Midlands by representatives of the Metropolitan Police’s Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU). They are currently held in custody and accused of violating the Malicious Communications Act and the Computer Misuse Act.
“This just comes to prove on how you shouldn't believe everything you read online. Tsk tsk tsk... NOBODY in #TeaMp0isoN has been arrested,” tweeted F0rsaken, one of the members of the group.
“TriCk was online and well with communication when this article was written. He is not arrested,” he explained.
Scotland Yard hasn’t issued an official statement to confirm the arrests, but we’ll soon find out if the apprehended individuals are in fact members of the TeaMp0isoN hacktivist collective.
In an interview we’ve recently had with TriCk, he was pretty certain that authorities have nothing on him.
“100% certain they have nothing on me. I don’t exist to them, I’ve never used my real details online, I’ve never purchased anything. My real identity dosen’t exist online. - and no I don’t fear getting caught,” he said at the time.
“I don’t recognize the law or its enforcers, I don’t fear "prison" – at least I’d be blocked from the mad world outside, I’d be able to focus on myself and practice my religion more. I don’t fear no one except god (Allah).”
TriCk hasn’t been active on Twitter for the past 13 hours, but if the law enforcement agencies do not provide further details, we’ll probably find out from the hacker himself what this is all about.
Moreover, while the Scotland Yard admitted that it was phone bombed by the hackers, it denied that its systems were breached, stating that the call leaked from the MI6 anti-terrorist hotline was obtained via a handset.
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