Yesterday I commented:

The anonymous folks may think they’re really anonymous and all proxied up and everything, but if a company like Visa has virtually unlimited money to spend on it (which they do), they will be identified.

Today the first arrest in the Wikileaks revenge hacking cases took place: a 16-year old Dutch boy.

4chan vigilante group Anonymous is used to getting away with its DDoS attacks and other  Internet shenanigans, but that’s not going to be the case this time around. An arrest has been made in 4chan’s revenge attacks on PayPal, Visa, and MasterCard, begun after the companies stopped providing services to WikiLeaks. The first to go down is a Dutch 16-year-old boy, who has been arrested by the Dutch High Tech Crime Team and is being held for interrogation.

The teenager went unnamed by the National Prosecutor, but the team said in an announcement Thursday that the cyberattacks (some of which came out of the Netherlands) “quickly led” investigators to the suspect. In addition to his arrest, the 4channer’s computers and other devices were seized.

Proving once again that it’s probably not a good idea to meddle with the primal forces of nature.