FBI agents sat in as Police Scotland officers interviewed the 15-year-old, who could face extradition and imprisonment in the United States.
“Following a search of a property in the Glasgow area on Tuesday, February 16, a 15-year-old male was arrested in connection with alleged offenses under the Computer Misuse Act 1990,” a spokesman for Police Scotland told Fortune on Friday. “He has since been released from custody.”
The Computer Misuse Act has three sections, including sentencing guidelines for intentionally obtaining unauthorized access to computers and modifying their settings. It acts as the U.K.’s central hacker-fighting law and can send people to jail for several years depending on the number of charges they face.
The fact that this 15 year old is accused of accessing the FBI systems means that he probably had been gaining the knowledge on how to hack systems for some time.
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