The Hague - website of the Dutch public prosecutor has been disabled for several hours in a cyber attack apparent Friday, after the arrest of a teenager suspected of working with sympathetic hackers denunciation online WikiLeaks. The website of the national police has also crashed repeatedly Friday. The events came as the Dutch authorities have stepped up their quest for hackers involved in cyber attacks on the sites of MasterCard, visa and PayPal credit card companies. New arrests in the Netherlands and other countries are likely, according to the Office of the Prosecutor in the Hague. On Wednesday evening, the police arrested a 16 years old who have worked with a group of pro-WikiLeaks pirates were behind the attacks. The Group would have used a Web server based in Haarlem near Amsterdam in his campaign "operation recovery." Multi-site enterprise have been targeted by online since the arrest activists Julian Assange earlier this week of founder WikiLeaks.
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