Suspected Anonymous hacker ‘had 750,000 passwords’, court hears

A London court heard this morning how 18-year-old Jake Davis allegedly had the login passwords of 750,000 people on his computer when he was arrested in the Shetland Islands last week.

Davis is suspected by the authorities of being “Topiary”, the public face of the Anonymous and LulzSec hacktivist groups.

According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard that Davis was charged with five offences including unauthorised computer access and conspiracy to carry out a…

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