Trinity Student FBI Claim is Top Hacker Is Released
A SUSPECTED hacker wanted by the FBI and arrested over cyber plots by online anarchists Anonymous and LulzSec has been released without charge. Donncha O’Cearbhail, (19) a county councillor's son who uses the online name palladium, was detained in Dublin yesterday after being named on a charge sheet from a New York court. He has been accused of tapping into a conference call the FBI had with gardai and other international agencies investigating an international hacking ring in January. The FBI claims that he is one of five most wanted top hackers in the world named in court papers filed in Manhattan yesterday. A garda spokesman said the student had been freed this morning while a file on the case was being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Mr O’Cearbhail, studying at Trinity College Dublin, was questioned on suspicion of membership of Anonymous and spin-off collective LulzSec. He was also suspected of hacking into a garda officer...