{"id":13198,"date":"2011-07-28T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"alleged-lulzsec-spokesperson-arrested-in-the-uk-lulzsec-claim-police-were-duped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13198-alleged-lulzsec-spokesperson-arrested-in-the-uk-lulzsec-claim-police-were-duped","title":{"rendered":"Alleged LulzSec \u201cspokesperson\u201d arrested in the UK, LulzSec claim police were duped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/igeneration\/lulzsec-spokesperson-arrested-by-scotland-yard\/11759?tag=mantle_skin;content\" target=\"_blank\">ZDNet<\/a>, an alleged LulzSec activist has been arrested by Scotland Yard in the Shetland Islands, just north of Scotland. The 19-year old male has apparently been identified as &ldquo;Topiary&rdquo;, the guy behind the @LulzSec Twitter account, although this claim has been subsequently disputed.<\/p>\n<p>In a dramatic twist, according to another report over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/Exclusive+British+Police+Duped+by+LulzSec+Into+Arresting+the+Wrong+Guy\/article22280.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Tech<\/a>, the coppers done nabbed the wrong bloke. The article cites otherwise unverified evidence that &ldquo;Topiary&rdquo; is a 23-year old man named Daniel Ackerman Sandberg, who lives in Uppsala, Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the article reprints a chat log between the presumably real &ldquo;Topiary&rdquo; and another anonymous person, suggesting that whoever the 19-year old &ldquo;Topiary&rdquo; is, he&rsquo;s just some kind of unwitting decoy.<\/p>\n<p>He&rsquo;s also in a lot of trouble right now. Metropolitan Police have confirmed that the arrested suspect is currently in transit to London, where he&rsquo;ll likely be charged with a long list of offences.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/16072-Another-LulzSec-suspect-busted-...\" target=\"_self\">Discuss LulzSec arrest<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who will have the last lulz?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}