In Spain, the attackers were detained at the site of NASA

On Saturday, Spanish police arrested five people on suspicion of hacking attacks on thousands of sites, some of them belonged to the government agencies and the U.S., Latin America and Asia - reports AP.

The detentions were carried out in different cities (Barcelona, ​​Burgos, Malaga, Valencia ), and according to law enforcement hackers were not previously know each other personally. Two of the ' great five ' of 16 years, and this means that if the evidence against them, the boys will get no more than one year in prison. Three other cyber criminals are not so lucky: three years.

Police said that the detainees belong to one of the most active hacker groups, which calls itself the D. O. M. Team. Only in the last two years, these people are attacked more than 21 thousand. resources - said the law enforcement. According to Spanish newspaper El Mundo, which conducted an investigation into the break site by NASA in March, this group is involved in what has happened, as well as to attacks on the resources of major institutions, among which worth mentioning Venezuelan national telephone company and the Spanish operator Jazztel.

Reporters told the publication that they were able to contact representatives of D. O. M. Team and they have to take a short interview. It was found that gang members do not consider themselves wicked, but only bring light into the dark head of system administrators who refuse to improve the protection of sites. In Spain, the search for the criminals started after treatment of the Communist Party of the country the police have cracked the site kiberzlodei Communists shortly after the parliamentary elections, which took place March 9.