Spain arrests 5 suspected of hacking US sites

May 17th, 2008 By DANIEL WOOLLS, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- Spanish police have arrested five people suspected of hacking into or outright disabling thousands of Internet pages, some of them run by government agencies in the U.S., Latin America and Asia, authorities said Saturday.

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