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Police in Spain arrest a man for allegedly stealing private data on Nintendo users and trying to blackmail the company.

Hackers have repeatedly breached the systems of the company that runs the Nasdaq, according to several law enforcement officials.

Well, that didn’t take long. No sooner had the government of Egypt restored Internet service to its citizens early Wednesday than the loosely organized cybervandals known as Anonymous were back at work trying to knock official Egyptian websites offline.

British police arrested five young men on Thursday as they and U.S. authorities conducted searches as part of a probe into Internet activists who carried out cyber attacks against groups they viewed as enemies of the WikiLeaks website.

Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook fan page seems to have been hacked, with the hacker posting a message calling on the company to transform into a "social business".

Gawker Media Inc. is urging subscribers to change their passwords because hackers have found their way into the company's user databases.

The European websites of the online retailer Amazon go temporarily offline, amid ongoing threats against major sites by pro-Wikileak activists.

As hacktivists target Amazon.com, a book has found its way onto the online commerce site that contains the U.S. documents released by WikiLeaks.

Both Facebook and Twitter have closed accounts corresponding to Anonymous, a formerly 4chan-linked group organizing a string of DDoS attacks on organizations that refuse to work with WikiLeaks.

Computer hackers who support WikiLeaks plan to attack Amazon.com Thursday, they announced on Twitter.