A 19-year-old suspected to be the mastermind behind the hacker group LulzSec has been arrested in Wickford, Essex in England, in a joint action by the Scotland Yard and the FBI, Sky News reports.

LulzSec recently got the public’s attention by hacking Sony’s servers, capturing hundreds of thousands of personal user records.

The same group also claims to have attacked the servers of several major online games, such as EVE Online and Minecraft, as well as Nintendo, the CIA and the U.S. Senate.

"The arrest follows an investigation into network intrusions and distributed denial of service attacks against a number of international business and intelligence agencies by what is believed to be the same hacking group. Searches at a residential address in Wickford, Essex, following the arrest last night have led to the examination of a significant amount of material," said a Scotland Yard spokesman.

Not long after news of the suspect's arrest, LulzSec issued its own sort of statement via Twitter:





