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15-year-old Merseyside boy arrested for hacking UK PayPal accounts

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Dissent

TEISS reports:

Merseyside Police have arrested, and subsequently released under investigation, a fifteen-year-old boy under the suspicion of hacking into a number of PayPal accounts in the UK earlier this year.

Aside from arresting and releasing the fifteen-year-old boy under investigation, Merseyside Police’s Cyber Dependent Crime Unit, along with the Matrix, carried out a search of the boy’s home- finding many expensive gadgets such as an iPhone 11, iPhone 8, Apple Watch, Samsung phone, Apple Airpods, an iPad, a Sony mobile phone and a mini motorbike.

Read more on TEISS.

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