Police dismantle KillSec: 16-year-old alleged admin arrested

On September 30, police in Spain, the U.K. and Romania arrested three people, including a 16-year-old suspected of running the KillSec extortion group, and seized its leak site and servers. The group is tied to about 1,000 attacks, roughly 500 of them successful, with at least 110 TB of data seized.

• Three arrested: a 16-year-old in Alicante plus two people in their 20s in the U.K. and Romania
• KillSec is linked to about 1,000 attacks, with roughly 500 confirmed successful
• At least 110 TB of data seized; 5 servers and 5 domains taken down
• Damage from an attack on a Catalan organization was put at nearly €1 million