Greek teen arrested over ministry cyber attack

Greek police said Monday they had arrested an 18-year-old suspected of hacking into the justice ministry’s website earlier this month, an attack claimed on behalf of online hackers group Anonymous.

Two other boys aged 16 and 17 were also being sought over the case, police said.

In the February 2 cyber attack, the hackers posted a statement on the ministry website in response to Greece’s tough fiscal reforms and the country’s decision to join a controversial international anti-piracy pact “You have introduced a new dictatorship upon your people’s shoulders and allowed the bankers and the monarchs of the EU to enslave them both economically and politically,” the statement said. “Democracy was given birth in your country but you have now killed it.”