AMSTERDAM | Saturday, December 11, 2010 2 pm EST
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch police arrested a 19-year-old man suspected of responsibility for a cyber attack of Prosecutor Office Web site Saturday.
Attack of the so-called "denial of service" on the site Web of prosecution Friday came one day after the Dutch police arrested a young aged 16 years in cyber attacks by the WikiLeaks supporters.
The 19 - year - old, arrested in Hoogezand-Sappemeer in the North of the country, is suspected of to piracy of software to launch attacks that have slow website Attorney for hours and briefly make it unavailable.
The Office of the Prosecutor also said that the man was suspected of urging others to participate in the attack. Police seized a computer in the arrest and a replica of an Italian pistol.
Cyber activists from around the world attacked organizations considered as enemies of WikiLeaks in retaliation for the services on the Web site after it has published thousands of U.S. secret diplomatic reports.
Participation in a denial of service attack causes a maximum imprisonment of six years to the Netherlands.
The man, who operated under the pseudonym of Internet Awinee is also suspected of involvement in an attack on the website of Moneybookers Friday business online payment.
(Reported by Aaron Gray-block; editing by Andrew Roche)
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