If you're a hacker, you can't trust anyone. Even the fellow gamers in an Xbox forum. That's how an 18-year-old leader of the notorious hacking group Lulz Security got tripped up, according to one of his comrades.
For 50 days this summer, a hacker who went by the name "Topiary" acted as the unofficial spokesman of the hacking group LulzSec. Last month Topiary was arrested and revealed to be an 18-year-old Scottish guy named Jake Davis who lived in the remote Shetland Islands. Davis, a fan of super cool hacker shadez and science books, was also apparently a big Xbox gamer—what else are you going to do in the Shetland Islands?—and that may have led to his downfall, it turns out.
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