The UK Police arrested 18-year-old man in Shetland Islands who is alleged to be involved in hacker attacks on law enforcement agencies. The Police sources said the man used Topiary as nickname, the alias used by LulzSec’s spokesman.
The group LulzSec have been active for long! LulzSec have claimed to have carried out attacks on a number of sites, on the Sun’s website last week when it redirected readers to a fake story reporting Rupert Murdoch being dead, on the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency, an FBI-affiliated site, the US Congress, and Sony’s European network, breaching Police and government’s e-presence like taking offline CIA’s website. The arrest in Shetland was made by the Metropolitan’s e-crime unit along with the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA) and Lincolnshire police.
A 17-year-old male is also being interviewed under caution at a Lincolnshire police station in connection with the inquiry but no arrests were made.
The suspect was on Wednesday being transported to London for interview. The main Twitter account of LulzSec, which Topiary is alleged to be running, fell silent on Wednesday after 12:44 AM July 27th, the tweet read:
Anonymous and LulzSec have been attacking paypal for not accepting payments made to Wikileaks and on wednesday they staged a peaceful
Topiary (also known as Gardenslayer) as alleged ran the LulzSec’s main Twitter account, whilst he cleared all of his tweets off his twitter account but one tweet saying “You cannot arrest an idea.” at 4:02 PM on July 21st
{blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/atopiary/status/94225773896015872″]
Topiary along with running LulzSec twitter account appeared on the David Pakman Show when he phoned in via Skype to counter Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church.
There has not been a comment from the Anonymous or LulzSec about the arrest!
LulzSec’s Sabu who act as a leader of the group and is one of the founder’s of the group tweeted at 9:30 AM on July 27th saying to the group
The LulzSec website was offline stating their claim that they aren’t going to renew hosting and to their followers to make mirrors of the content!
However experts and a blog differ on the arrest been made, the blog differs titling the post “#antisec #anonymous #lulzsec – Police giving wrong information??? How can this be ‘Topiary’? Did he move to Scotland recently from Sweden?” on the basis on the content published online which claims that Topiary is from Sweden and posts a detail of his biography and his online presence as follows:
Daniel Ackerman Sandberg
Birthday 13 August 1988
Location Uppsala, Sweden
Interests Zelda
, Warhammer, Writing, Being with friends, more…
Twitter – http://twitter.com/atopiary
Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/ManofWorld
Youtube – http://www.youtube.com/user/warpstonelord
Skype – x-tomtenisse-x , Doxiary
Digg – http://digg.com/warpstonelord
the blog sites the following video to be their source:
and the person in the frame at 16-22 secsto be Topiary but why would he appear before a camera to present his views when he has been doing anonymous broadcasting via phone in to a radio show via Skype, presenting his works and views of the organization via twitter accounts!
the point is when they have been taking extreme caution to remain anonymous why sudden urge to get online in front of viewers around the world! In my opinion they are just ordinary people claiming to be Anonymous!




Thanks for the mention. Its been 36 hours now since the 18 (not 19) year olds arrest in Shetland, and he has not been charged. Under UK law he must be released or charged at some point today.
Unless he has been assisting the UK Police with their enquiries (worrying for Anon/Lulzsec ) and is not actually under arrest.