- Five leading members of LulzSec arrested or further charged, including two from Ireland A cross-continent operation this morning has resulted in the arrest of three alleged members of hacker group LulzSec, with two other alleged members charged with conspiracy.
- Two arrested over Fine Gael website hack, subsequently released without charge Two teenagers were arrested early this morning on suspicion of hacking Fine Gael's website in January of this year and allegedly gaining access to contact details of 2,000 site subscribers. Both males were released without charge a short time ago.
- Libya's domain registry website hacked The website of Libya's domain registry, nic.ly, has been hacked with a simple message stating "bye bye Qadaffi [sic]". The hack is attributed to an individual known as 'Electr0n' and contains obvious anti-Muammar Gaddafi sentiment.
- Hacker group Anonymous staging 24-hour sit-in protest in Sony stores worldwide Hacker group Anonymous plan to stage a 24-hour sit-in protest this Saturday April 16 in Sony stores worldwide. The offline protest has been organised in response to Sony’s recently introduced restrictions on custom software that users sometimes run on their console and lawsuits taken against such Sony PlayStation 3 modifiers.