/spandiv style="float:right;width:305px;display:inline;font-size:13px;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;line-height:16px;" img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/53536000/jpg/_53536832_socawebsite.jpg" width="304" height="171" alt="Soca website"span style="width:304px;"The Soca website was taken offline by an apparent denial of service attack/span /div div class="story-feature related narrow"Related Stories/div p class="introduction" id="story_continues_1"A 19-year-old man has been arrested in Wickford, Essex, in connection with the hacking of websites./p pOn Monday the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) was forced to take its website offline after it was attacked by Lulz Security hackers./p pScotland Yard would not confirm the arrest was connected but did say that it followed a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks./p pTuesday's raid was a "pre-planned, intelligence-led" operation, it said./ppThis article is from the a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk" title="Link to BBC News"BBC News website/a. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DyTqd2f3ImbIMiKwm1J8ZASc494/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DyTqd2f3ImbIMiKwm1J8ZASc494/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DyTqd2f3ImbIMiKwm1J8ZASc494/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DyTqd2f3ImbIMiKwm1J8ZASc494/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BbcNewsTechnologyFullFeed/~4/GuoJJw6Ae1Y" height="1" width="1"/